The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 57

“Bring me the two most precious things in the city,” said God to one of His Angels; and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird.

Who acts: God, Angel · What happens: bring, say · To what, where: two precious things, God, city, one, leaden heart · 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 (God, Angel), 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	_	2 Bring	punct
2	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bring	obj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 things	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 things	nummod
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 precious	advmod
7	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 things	amod
8	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Bring	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bring	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Bring	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 said	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Angels	case
19	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 Angels	nmod:poss
20	Angels	angel	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 brought	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Angel	det
24	Angel	Angel	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 brought	nsubj
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
26	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heart	det
28	leaden	leaden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 heart	amod
29	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bird	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bird	det
32	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bird	amod
33	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 heart	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	bring in a quote	infinitive		the two precious things	God	the city	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination thing=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	God		one of God's Angels		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic
3	bring	past	the Angel	the leaden heart and the dead bird	God		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination heart=Theme

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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