The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 34

“I am afraid it will not go with my dress,” she answered; “and, besides, the Chamberlain’s nephew has sent me some real jewels, and everybody knows that jewels cost far more than flowers.”

Who acts: girl, heart, everybody, that · What happens: be, not go, answer, send, know, cost · To what, where: nephew, more · 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 (girl, heart, everybody, that), 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 afraid	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 go	advmod
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	ccomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 dress	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 dress	nmod:poss
11	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sent	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 and	punct
20	besides	besides	INTJ	_	27 sent	discourse
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 besides	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Chamberlain	det
23	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 nephew	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Chamberlain	case
25	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	nsubj:pass
26	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afraid	ccomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obj
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	31 jewels	det
30	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 jewels	amod
31	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 knows	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 knows	cc
34	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	35 knows	nsubj
35	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	conj
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 cost	nsubj
37	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 cost	nsubj
38	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 knows	ccomp
39	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	38 cost	obj
41	than	than	ADP	_	42 flowers	case
42	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 more	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	girl		afraid property	tree rules
2	not go in a quote	future	heart		with my dress	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with dress=Beneficiary
3	answer speech: assert	past	girl			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the Chamberlain's nephew		tree rules
5	know in a quote	present	everybody			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	cost in a quote	present	that	more		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme more=Value

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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