The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 82
I am going to bring them into the market and sell them to the Burgomaster’s daughter, and buy back my wheelbarrow with the money.’
Who acts: I · What happens: go, bring, sell, buy back · To what, where: primroses, market, daughter, wheelbarrow
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 bring | mark |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 market | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 market | det |
| 9 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sell | cc |
| 11 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bring | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sell | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Burgomaster | det |
| 15 | Burgomaster | Burgomaster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Burgomaster | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sell | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 buy | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 buy | cc |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 buy | advmod |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 money | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 money | det |
| 26 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 buy | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | I not said here | primroses = primrose | the market | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into market=Destination | |||
| 3 | sell | infinitive | I not said here | primroses = primrose | the Burgomaster's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to daughter=Recipient | |||
| 4 | buy back | infinitive | I not said here | my wheelbarrow | with the money | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheelbarrow=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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