The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 18

“You must not lie here,” shouted the Watchman, and they wandered out into the rain.

Who acts: You, Watchman, boys · What happens: not lie, shout, wander out · To what, where: rain · 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, Watchman, boys), 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	_	5 lie	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 lie	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 lie	advmod
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 shouted	ccomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lie	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
9	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Watchman	det
11	Watchman	Watchman	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 shouted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wandered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wandered	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wandered	nsubj
15	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shouted	conj
16	out	out	ADV	_	15 wandered	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 rain	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rain	det
19	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wandered	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	not lie in a quote	must	You	here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	past	the Watchman			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wander out	past	boys = boy	the rain	out property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into rain=Destination

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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