The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 94

But go to my brother who grows round the old sun-dial, and perhaps he will give you what you want.”

Who acts: you, brother, Rose · What happens: go, grow, give, want · To what, where: you

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 (you, brother, 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	_	2 go	cc
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 brother	case
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 grows	nsubj
7	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 brother	acl:relcl
8	round	round	ADP	_	13 dial	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dial	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dial	amod
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dial	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 sun	punct
13	dial	dial	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 give	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
16	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	19 give	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 want	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 give	ccomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		to my brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location
2	grow	present	my brother		round the old sun dial	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	give	future	Rose	you	perhaps property	tree rules
4	want	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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