The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 119
“Be happy,” cried the Nightingale, “be happy; you shall have your red rose.
Who acts: Nightingale, you · What happens: be, cry, have · To what, where: red rose · 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, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 happy | cop |
| 3 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 happy | punct |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Nightingale | det |
| 8 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 happy | punct |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 happy | cop |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 have | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 have | aux |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cried | conj |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rose | amod |
| 19 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Nightingale | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | happy property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | shall | you | your red rose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |
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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