The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 81

But with me she will not dance, for I have no red rose to give her”; and he flung himself down on the grass, and buried his face in his hands, and wept.

Who acts: love, I, Rose · What happens: not dance, have, give, fling down, bury, weep · To what, where: red rose, love, Rose, grass, face, hands · 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 (love, I, Rose), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 dance	cc
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 me	case
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 dance	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dance	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 dance	advmod
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	parataxis
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 rose	det
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rose	amod
14	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 give	mark
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rose	acl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 give	punct
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 flung	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flung	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 flung	nsubj
22	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dance	parataxis
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 flung	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 flung	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 buried	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 buried	cc
30	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flung	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 face	nmod:poss
32	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 buried	obj
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 hands	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hands	nmod:poss
35	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 buried	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 wept	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 wept	cc
38	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flung	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dance	future	love				with me	tree rules
2	have	present	I	no red rose				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient
3	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	no red rose not said here	love			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
4	fling down in a quote	past	Rose	Rose		the grass		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on grass=Destination
5	bury in a quote	past	Rose not said here	Rose's face		Rose's hands		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme in hand=Destination
6	weep in a quote	past	Rose not said here					vn breathe-40.1.2 «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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