The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 20

“I am covered with fine gold,” said the Prince, “you must take it off, leaf by leaf, and give it to my poor; the living always think that gold can make them happy.”

Who acts: Prince, you, living, gold · What happens: cover, say, take off, give, think, make · To what, where: Prince, gold, poor, leaves · 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 (Prince, you, living, gold), 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	_	4 covered	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 gold	case
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 gold	amod
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 covered	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 take	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 take	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 leaf	punct
21	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 leaf	case
23	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 give	cc
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 poor	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 poor	nmod:poss
30	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 give	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 living	det
33	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 think	nsubj
34	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	35 think	advmod
35	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	parataxis
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 make	mark
37	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 think	ccomp
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 make	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover in a quote	present · passive		the Prince = prince		with fine gold	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Prince				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take off in a quote	must	you	gold		by leaf; leaf obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	gold	my poor		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to poor=Recipient
5	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive	the living			always property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	make in a quote	can	gold	leaves = leaf		happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product

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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