The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 96

“Give me a red rose,” she cried, “and I will sing you my sweetest song.”

Who acts: you, white, my · What happens: give, cry, sing · To what, where: red rose, white, sweetest song, you · 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 (you, white, 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rose	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rose	amod
6	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Give	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sing	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 sing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sing	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 sing	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sing	aux
16	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 sing	iobj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 song	nmod:poss
19	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 song	amod
20	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	a red rose	white	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	white			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sing speech: express in a quote	future	white	my sweetest song	you	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary song=Theme
4	sing in a quote		my			nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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