The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 38

So I shall wait till the spring comes, and then I shall pay him a visit, and he will be able to give me a large basket of primroses and that will make him so happy.’

Who acts: I, spring, Hans, that · What happens: wait, come, pay, be, give, make · To what, where: Hans, large basket, me

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, spring, Hans, that), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 wait	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wait	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	aux
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spring	det
7	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 pay	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 pay	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 pay	nsubj
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 pay	aux
14	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wait	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 pay	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 visit	det
17	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pay	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 able	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 able	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 able	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 able	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	cop
23	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wait	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 give	mark
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 able	xcomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 basket	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 basket	amod
29	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 primroses	case
31	primroses	primrose	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 basket	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 make	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 make	nsubj
34	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 give	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 make	obj
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 happy	advmod
38	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 make	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	shall	I					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	the spring					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pay	shall	I		Hans	then		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient visit=Asset
4	is	future	Hans				able property	tree rules
5	give	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	a large basket of primroses	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient basket=Theme
6	make	future	that	Hans			happy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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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