The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 11
“Press closer, little Nightingale,” cried the Tree, “or the Day will come before the rose is finished.”
Who acts: Tree, Day · What happens: press, cry, come, finish · To what, where: little Nightingale, rose · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, Day), 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 Press | punct |
| 2 | Press | press | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | closer | close | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 Press | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Nightingale | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Nightingale | amod |
| 6 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Press | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Press | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Press | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tree | det |
| 11 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 come | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Day | det |
| 16 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 come | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 finished | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rose | det |
| 21 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 finished | aux:pass |
| 23 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 come | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press in a quote | infinitive | little Nightingale | close property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Tree | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | the Day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | finish in a quote | present · passive | the rose | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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