The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 120
I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood.
Who acts: I · What happens: build, stain · To what, where: Sun, music
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 build | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 build | aux |
| 3 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 build | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 moonlight | case |
| 9 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 build | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stain | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stain | cc |
| 12 | stain | stain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 build | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stain | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 blood | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 blood | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 blood | amod |
| 17 | heart’s | heart's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 blood | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 heart’s | punct |
| 19 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stain | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | future | I | Sun | music | by moonlight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||
| 2 | stain | infinitive | I not said here | Sun | with my 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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