The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 111
All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.”
Who acts: you, thorn, life blood · What happens: sing, pierce, flow, become · To what, where: me, heart, veins, mine
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, thorn, life blood), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sing | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 night | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sing | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sing | aux |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pierce | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pierce | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thorn | det |
| 12 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierce | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 pierce | aux |
| 14 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sing | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pierce | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 flow | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flow | cc |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 blood | nmod:poss |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 blood | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 life | punct |
| 22 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 flow | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 flow | aux |
| 24 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pierce | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 veins | case |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 veins | nmod:poss |
| 27 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flow | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 become | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 become | cc |
| 30 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pierce | conj |
| 31 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 become | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | must | you | me | night | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pierce | must | the thorn | your heart | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | flow | must | your life blood | my veins | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | become | infinitive | the thorn not said here | mine | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient my=Result |
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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