The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 11

“Dear little Swallow,” said the Prince, “you tell me of marvellous things, but more marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and of women.

Who acts: Dear little Swallow, you, anything · What happens: say, tell, be · To what, where: Dear little Swallow · 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 (Dear little Swallow, you, anything), 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	_	4 Swallow	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Swallow	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Swallow	amod
4	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Swallow	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 Swallow	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prince	det
9	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
13	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 tell	iobj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 things	case
16	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 things	amod
17	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 marvellous	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 marvellous	cc
20	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 marvellous	advmod
21	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tell	conj
22	than	than	ADP	_	26 suffering	case
23	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 suffering	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 suffering	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 suffering	det
26	suffering	suffering	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 marvellous	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 men	case
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 suffering	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 women	cc
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 women	case
31	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 men	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Dear little Swallow			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	you	Dear little Swallow = swallow	of marvellous things	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	anything		than the suffering; of men and women	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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