The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 20

“It is applicable to you,” answered the Linnet; and he flew down, and alighting upon the bank, he told the story of The Devoted Friend.

Who acts: fiction, Linnet, story · What happens: be, answer, fly down, alight, tell · To what, where: you, story · 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 (fiction, Linnet, story), 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	_	4 applicable	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 applicable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 applicable	cop
4	applicable	applicable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 answered	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 applicable	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 applicable	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 applicable	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Linnet	det
11	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flew	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flew	nsubj
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 answered	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 flew	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 told	cc
19	alighting	alight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 told	advcl
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 bank	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bank	det
22	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 alighting	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alighting	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 flew	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 story	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 told	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Friend	case
29	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Friend	det
30	Devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Friend	amod
31	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 story	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	fiction		you	applicable property	tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Linnet				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly down	past	story				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	alight	gerund	story not said here			upon the bank	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	past	story	the story of the Devoted Friend			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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