The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 15
“And what would you do in return?” said the little bird, swinging upon a silver spray, and flapping his tiny wings.
Who acts: you, little bird · What happens: do, say, swing, flap · To what, where: return, silver spray, tiny wings · 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, little bird), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 return | case |
| 8 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 do | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swinging | punct |
| 16 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 spray | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 spray | det |
| 19 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 spray | amod |
| 20 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 swinging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flapping | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flapping | cc |
| 23 | flapping | flap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 swinging | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wings | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 wings | amod |
| 26 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flapping | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would | you | return | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the little bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | the little bird not said here | a silver spray | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon spray=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | flap | gerund | the little bird not said here | bird's tiny wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
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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