The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 103
Pray get it at once, and I will set to work at my barn this very day.’
Who acts: I · What happens: get, set, work · To what, where: friendship
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), 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 | Pray | pray | PART | _ | 2 get | mark |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 get | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 once | case |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 get | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 set | aux |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 work | mark |
| 12 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 set | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 barn | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 barn | nmod:poss |
| 15 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 day | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 day | advmod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 work | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | infinitive | I not said here | friendship | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Asset | ||||
| 2 | set | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | work | to-infinitive | I not said here | day | at my barn | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at barn=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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