The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 83
“‘Buy back your wheelbarrow?
What happens: buy back · To what, where: 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: 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 | _ | 3 Buy | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ‘ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 Buy | aux |
| 3 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 Buy | advmod |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Buy | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy back in a quote | your wheelbarrow | 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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