The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 17

“Let me tell you a story on the subject,” said the Linnet.

Who acts: Linnet · What happens: let, tell, say · To what, where: Linnet, story, you, subject · 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 (Linnet), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 subject	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 subject	det
10	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Linnet	det
15	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		the Linnet = linnet			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	the Linnet = linnet not said here	a story	you	the subject	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	the Linnet				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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