The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 68
“The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,” murmured the young Student, “and my love will be of the company.
Who acts: Prince, love, my · What happens: give, murmur, be, love · To what, where: ball, young Student · 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 (Prince, love, my), 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 gives | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | nsubj |
| 4 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 murmured | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ball | det |
| 6 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gives | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | compound |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ball | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gives | punct |
| 13 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Student | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Student | amod |
| 16 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 murmured | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 company | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 company | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 company | cc |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 company | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 company | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 company | cop |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 company | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 company | det |
| 26 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Student | appos |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 murmured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | present | the Prince | a ball | to morrow night | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | past | the young Student | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | future | my love | of the company | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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