The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 1

“You will never be in the best society unless you can stand on your heads,” she kept saying to them; and every now and then she showed them how it was done.

Who acts: You, she, society · What happens: not be, stand, keep, say, show, be · To what, where: best society, heads · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, she, society), 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	_	9 society	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 society	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 society	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 society	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 society	cop
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 society	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 society	det
8	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 society	amod
9	society	society	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kept	ccomp
10	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	13 stand	mark
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stand	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stand	aux
13	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 society	acl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 heads	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 heads	nmod:poss
16	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stand	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 society	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 society	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kept	nsubj
20	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 kept	xcomp
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saying	obl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 done	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 done	cc
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	36 done	det
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 done	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 showed	cc
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 showed	advmod
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 showed	nsubj
31	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 done	advcl
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 showed	obj
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 done	advmod
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 done	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 done	cop
36	done	done	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 kept	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	future	You			the best society			tree rules
2	stand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	the best society not said here		your heads			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent society=Theme on head=Destination
3	keep	past	she						tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	she not said here		heads = head				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
5	show	past	she	heads = head			then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	is	past	society				now	done property	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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