The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
“You said that you would dance with me if I brought you a red rose,” cried the Student.
Who acts: You, I, Student · What happens: say, dance, bring, cry · To what, where: red rose, you · 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 (You, I, Student), 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 | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 dance | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 dance | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | aux |
| 7 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dance | obl |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 brought | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dance | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rose | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rose | amod |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 cried | punct |
| 19 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Student | det |
| 21 | Student | Student | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cried | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | You | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | would | you | with me | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | I | a red rose | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination rose=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | the Student | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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