The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 126

“Sing me one last song,” he whispered; “I shall feel very lonely when you are gone.”

Who acts: Student, you · What happens: sing, whisper, feel, be · To what, where: one last song, Student · 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 (Student, 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	_	2 Sing	punct
2	Sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 whispered	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Sing	obj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 song	nummod
5	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 song	amod
6	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sing	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sing	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whispered	nsubj
10	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 feel	nsubj
14	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 feel	aux
15	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 whispered	ccomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 lonely	advmod
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 gone	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 gone	nsubj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 gone	cop
21	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lonely	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	infinitive		one last song	Student		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary song=Theme
2	whisper speech: assert	past	Student				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	feel in a quote	shall	Student			lonely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is in a quote	present	you			gone property	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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