The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

You will wear it to-night next your heart, and as we dance together it will tell you how I love you.”

Who acts: You, we, world, I · What happens: wear, dance, tell, love · To what, where: world, 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, we, world, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 wear	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wear	aux
3	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wear	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 to	punct
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wear	obl
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heart	amod
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heart	nmod:poss
10	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 dance	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 dance	nsubj
15	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	advcl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 dance	advmod
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wear	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 love	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 love	nsubj
23	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 love	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wear	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 wear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wear	future	You	world		night		tree rules
2	dance	present	we				together property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	future	world		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	love	present	I	you				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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