The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 31
“I am glad that you are going to Egypt at last, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “you have stayed too long here; but you must kiss me on the lips, for I love you.”
Who acts: Prince, you · What happens: be, go, say, stay, kiss, love · To what, where: Egypt, last little Swallow, Prince, lips, you · 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), 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 glad | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glad | cop |
| 4 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 going | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 glad | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Egypt | case |
| 10 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Swallow | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Swallow | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 last | punct |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Swallow | amod |
| 15 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 glad | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 stayed | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 stayed | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 stayed | aux |
| 25 | stayed | stay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | conj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 long | advmod |
| 27 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 here | advmod |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 stayed | advmod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 kiss | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 kiss | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 kiss | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 kiss | aux |
| 33 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 kiss | obj |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 lips | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lips | det |
| 37 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 kiss | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 love | punct |
| 39 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 love | mark |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 love | nsubj |
| 41 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 kiss | conj |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 love | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 kiss | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 kiss | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the Prince = prince | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | Egypt | last little Swallow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | present · perfect | you | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kiss in a quote | must | you | the Prince = prince | the lips | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | love in a quote | present | the Prince = prince | you | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=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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