The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 13

Fly over my city, little Swallow, and tell me what you see there.”

Who acts: you · What happens: fly, tell, see · To what, where: city, me · 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 (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	Fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	4 city	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 city	nmod:poss
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fly	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Swallow	punct
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Swallow	amod
7	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 city	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tell	cc
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fly	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 see	obj
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	ccomp
15	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 see	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	roles by
1	fly	imperative	you not said here		my city and little Swallow	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over city=Location
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	see	present	you		there	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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