The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 41

But he lives so far away, and it is such a bad night, that it has just occurred to me that it would be much better if you went instead of me.

Who acts: boy, Doctor, you · What happens: live, be, occur, go · To what, where: bad night, Doctor, me

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, Doctor, you), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 lives	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 away	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 away	advmod
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 lives	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 night	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 night	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 night	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 night	cop
11	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	14 night	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 night	det
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 night	amod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 occurred	punct
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 occurred	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 occurred	aux
19	just	just	ADV	_	20 occurred	advmod
20	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lives	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 occurred	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 better	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 better	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 better	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 better	cop
27	much	much	ADV	_	28 better	advmod
28	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 occurred	parataxis
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 went	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 went	nsubj
31	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 better	advcl
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	34 me	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 went	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	live	present	boy			away property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Doctor	such bad night			tree rules
3	occur	present · perfect · passive		Doctor	me		tree rules
4	is	would	Doctor			good property	tree rules
5	go a condition, not said to happen	past	you			instead me	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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