The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
“No, little Swallow,” said the poor Prince, “you must go away to Egypt.”
Who acts: little Swallow, you · What happens: say, go away · To what, where: Egypt · 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 (little Swallow, you), 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 | _ | 5 Swallow | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 little | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Swallow | amod |
| 5 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Swallow | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Swallow | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Prince | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Prince | amod |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 go | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 go | aux |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Egypt | case |
| 19 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | little Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go away in a quote | must | you | Egypt | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial_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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