The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 79

“The musicians will sit in their gallery,” said the young Student, “and play upon their stringed instruments, and my love will dance to the sound of the harp and the violin.

Who acts: musicians, young Student, love, my · What happens: sit, say, play, dance, love · To what, where: gallery, sound · 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 (musicians, young Student, 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	_	5 sit	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 musicians	det
3	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sit	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 sit	aux
5	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 gallery	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 gallery	nmod:poss
8	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sit	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 sit	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Student	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Student	amod
14	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 play	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
18	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 instruments	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 instruments	nmod:poss
21	stringed	stringed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 instruments	amod
22	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 play	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dance	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dance	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 love	nmod:poss
26	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dance	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 dance	aux
28	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 play	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 sound	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sound	det
31	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dance	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 harp	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 harp	det
34	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sound	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 violin	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 violin	det
37	violin	violin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sound	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	future	the musicians	musicians's gallery		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gallery=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the young Student			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	play in a quote	present			upon musicians's stringed instruments	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dance in a quote	future	my love	the sound of the harp and the violin		vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory
5	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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