The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 30
“Good-bye, dear Prince!” he murmured, “will you let me kiss your hand?”
Who acts: Good dear Prince, you · What happens: murmur, let, kiss · To what, where: Good dear Prince, hand · 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 (Good dear Prince, 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 | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bye | punct |
| 4 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 2 Good | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 murmured | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Prince | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 murmured | nsubj |
| 11 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 let | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 let | nsubj |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 murmured | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kiss | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | murmur speech: other | past | Good dear Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | future | you | Good dear Prince = prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | infinitive | Good dear Prince = prince not said here | your hand | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Co-Agent |
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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