The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 109

“If you want a red rose,” said the Tree, “you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart’s-blood.

Who acts: you, Tree · What happens: want, say, build, stain · To what, where: red rose, way, music · 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 (you, Tree), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 want	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 rose	det
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rose	amod
7	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 want	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Tree	det
12	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 build	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 build	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 build	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 build	aux
17	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 build	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 music	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 music	case
21	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 build	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 moonlight	case
23	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 build	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stain	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stain	cc
26	stain	stain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 build	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 stain	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	33 blood	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 blood	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 blood	amod
31	heart’s	heart's	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 blood	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 heart’s	punct
33	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stain	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	a red rose			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rose=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Tree				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	build in a quote	must	you	way	music	by moonlight	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	stain in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	way		with your own heart’s blood	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with blood=Theme

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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