The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 42

You know I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, and so, it is only fair that you should do something for me in return.’

Who acts: You, I, it · What happens: know, go, give, be, do · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you, something, return · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (You, I, it), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 know	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 give	mark
7	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 going	xcomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 give	iobj
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wheelbarrow	nmod:poss
10	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fair	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fair	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	18 fair	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fair	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fair	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fair	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 fair	advmod
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 know	parataxis
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 fair	csubj
23	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 do	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 me	case
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 do	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 return	case
27	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	You					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	present · progressive	I					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	my wheelbarrow	you			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme
4	is	present	it				fair property	tree rules
5	do	should	you	something		return	for me	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality

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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