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The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 58

“You have rightly chosen,” said God, “for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me.”

Who acts: You, God, little bird, Happy Prince · What happens: choose, say, sing, praise · To what, where: God, city · 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, God, little bird, Happy Prince), 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

punctnsubjauxadvmodccomppunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctcasecasenmod:possapposcasenmoddetamodnsubjauxccompcaseoblpunctcccasenmod:possoblcasenmoddetamodnsubjauxparataxisobjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTYouPRONhaveAUXrightlyADVchosenVERB,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBGodPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTforADPinADPmyPRONgardenNOUNofADPParadisePROPNthisDETlittleADJbirdNOUNshallAUXsingVERBforADPevermoreADV,PUNCTandCCONJinADPmyPRONcityNOUNofADPgoldNOUNtheDETHappyADJPrincePROPNshallAUXpraiseVERBmePRON.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_5 chosenpunct
2YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs5 chosennsubj
3havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 chosenaux
4rightlyrightlyADV_5 chosenadvmod
5chosenchooseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 saidccomp
6,,PUNCT_5 chosenpunct
7”"PUNCT_5 chosenpunct
8saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing8 saidnsubj
10,,PUNCT_15 gardenpunct
11“"PUNCT_15 gardenpunct
12forforADP_15 gardencase
13ininADP_15 gardencase
14mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 gardennmod:poss
15gardengardenNOUNNumber=Sing9 Godappos
16ofofADP_17 Paradisecase
17ParadiseParadisePROPNNumber=Sing15 gardennmod
18thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem20 birddet
19littlelittleADJDegree=Pos20 birdamod
20birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing22 singnsubj
21shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin22 singaux
22singsingVERBVerbForm=Inf8 saidccomp
23forforADP_24 evermorecase
24evermoreevermoreADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult22 singobl
25,,PUNCT_36 praisepunct
26andandCCONJ_36 praisecc
27ininADP_29 citycase
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 citynmod:poss
29citycityNOUNNumber=Sing36 praiseobl
30ofofADP_31 goldcase
31goldgoldNOUNNumber=Sing29 citynmod
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 Princedet
33HappyhappyADJDegree=Pos34 Princeamod
34PrincePrincePROPNNumber=Sing36 praisensubj
35shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin36 praiseaux
36praisepraiseVERBVerbForm=Inf8 saidparataxis
37meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs36 praiseobj
38..PUNCT_36 praisepunct
39”"PUNCT_36 praisepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1choose in a quotepresent · perfectYourightly propertyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2say speech: assertpastGodvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3sing speech: express in a quoteshallthis little birdvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for evermore=Recipient
4praise in a quoteshallthe Happy PrinceGodmy city of goldvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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