The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 6
“You are blind now,” he said, “so I will stay with you always.”
Who acts: You, Prince · What happens: be, say, stay · 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, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 blind | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | cop |
| 4 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 blind | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blind | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 stay | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | aux |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 stay | obl |
| 18 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 stay | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | now | blind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay in a quote | future | Prince | with you; always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
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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