The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
“I will stay with you always,” said the Swallow, and he slept at the Prince’s feet.
Who acts: Swallow, Prince · What happens: stay, say, sleep · To what, where: feet · 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 (Swallow, Prince), 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 stay | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stay | aux |
| 4 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 stay | obl |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 stay | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stay | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Swallow | det |
| 12 | Swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slept | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 slept | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 slept | nsubj |
| 16 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 feet | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 feet | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 21 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 slept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | future | the Swallow = swallow | with you; always property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Swallow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sleep | past | Prince | the Prince's feet | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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