The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 69
If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn.
Who acts: I, sorrow · What happens: bring, dance · To what, where: red rose, sorrow
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 (I, sorrow), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 bring | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dance | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rose | det |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rose | amod |
| 7 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dance | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 dance | aux |
| 10 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 dance | obl |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 dawn | case |
| 14 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dance | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 dance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring a condition, not said to happen | present | I | a red rose | sorrow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination rose=Theme | |||
| 2 | dance | future | sorrow | dawn | with me | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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