The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 108

“Tell it to me,” said the Nightingale, “I am not afraid.”

Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: tell, say, not be · To what, where: way, Nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightingale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Nightingale	det
10	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 afraid	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 afraid	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 afraid	advmod
16	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		way	the Nightingale = nightingale		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to i=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Nightingale				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not is in a quote	present	the Nightingale = nightingale			afraid property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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