The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 106
And now, as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I am sure you would like to give me some flowers in return.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: give, be, like · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you, flowers, me, return
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 sure | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 now | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 given | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 sure | advcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 given | iobj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 like | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 like | aux |
| 17 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 like | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 flowers | det |
| 22 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 return | case |
| 24 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flowers | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | 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 | is | present | I | now | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | like | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | some flowers | me | return | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient flower=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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