The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 99

But go to my brother who grows beneath the Student’s window, and perhaps he will give you what you want.”

Who acts: you, brother, mower · What happens: go, grow, give, want · To what, where: window, 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, mower), 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	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	12 window	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Student	det
10	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 window	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 Student	case
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grows	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
15	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	18 give	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 go	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 want	obj
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 give	ccomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	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		the Student's window		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath window=Location
3	give	future	mower	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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