The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 110
You must sing to me with your breast against a thorn.
Who acts: You · What happens: sing · To what, where: me
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sing | aux |
| 3 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 sing | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 breast | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 breast | nmod:poss |
| 8 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obl |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 11 thorn | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 thorn | det |
| 11 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | must | You | me | with your breast; against a thorn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with breast=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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