The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 60

“SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.”

Who acts: better, young Student · What happens: say, dance, bring, cry, be · To what, where: red roses, better, red rose · 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 (better, young Student), 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	_	3 said	punct
2	SHE	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dance	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dance	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	aux
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dance	obl
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 brought	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 brought	nsubj
12	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	advcl
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 roses	amod
15	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 cried	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Student	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Student	amod
21	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 rose	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	33 rose	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 is	cc
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 garden	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 garden	det:predet
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 garden	nmod:poss
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	obl
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 rose	cop
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 rose	det
32	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 rose	amod
33	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	better = good				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dance in a quote	would	better = good			with better = good	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	better = good	red roses	better = good		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination rose=Theme
4	cry speech: express	past	the young Student				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present		no red rose			tree rules

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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