The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 70

If I bring her a red rose, I shall hold her in my arms, and she will lean her head upon my shoulder, and her hand will be clasped in mine.

Who acts: I, sorrow · What happens: bring, hold, lean, clasp · To what, where: red rose, sorrow, arms, head, shoulder, hand

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	11 hold	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bring	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hold	nsubj
10	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hold	aux
11	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 arms	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lean	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lean	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lean	nsubj
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lean	aux
20	lean	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 head	nmod:poss
22	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lean	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	25 shoulder	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulder	nmod:poss
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lean	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 clasped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 clasped	cc
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hand	nmod:poss
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 clasped	nsubj:pass
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 clasped	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 clasped	aux:pass
32	clasped	clasp	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lean	conj
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 mine	case
34	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 clasped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	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	hold	shall	I	sorrow		my arms		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in arm=Location
3	lean	future	sorrow	sorrow's head		my shoulder		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon shoulder=Destination
4	clasp	future · passive		sorrow's hand			in mine	vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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