The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 66

“Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I told his story to the stars, and now I see him.

Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: sing, not know, have, tell, see · To what, where: lover, story, stars · 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 (Nightingale), 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	_	7 sung	punct
2	Night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Night	nmod
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sung	aux
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
7	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 knew	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sung	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	obj
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knew	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obl:unmarked
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 night	case
19	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 night	nmod
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sung	conj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 told	nsubj
22	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 have	parataxis
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 story	nmod:poss
24	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 told	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 stars	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stars	det
27	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 told	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 see	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 see	cc
30	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 see	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 see	nsubj
32	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 told	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 see	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express in a quote	present · perfect					of lover	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not know in a quote	past	the Nightingale = nightingale	lover				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	have in a quote	present				night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	past	the Nightingale = nightingale	lover's story	the stars			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to star=Recipient
5	see in a quote	present	the Nightingale = nightingale	lover		now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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