The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 101
I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, go · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you, plank, me
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 (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 given | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 going | cc |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 going | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 given | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | xcomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 plank | nmod:poss |
| 17 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | my wheelbarrow | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | you | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | you not said here | your plank | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plank=Theme |
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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