The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 115

“You must tell him to be sure and come here to-morrow,” said the Giant.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: tell, be, come, say · To what, where: Giant, morrow · 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 (Giant), 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	_	4 tell	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 sure	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sure	cop
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tell	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
10	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sure	conj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 come	advmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 morrow	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Giant	det
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	must	Giant		Giant			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive					sure property	tree rules
3	come in a quote	present				morrow; here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert	past		the Giant				tree rules

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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