The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 44

But you must lend me your lantern, as the night is so dark that I am afraid I might fall into the ditch.’

Who acts: you, night, I · What happens: lend, be, fall · To what, where: lantern, me, ditch

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, night, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 lend	cc
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 lend	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lend	aux
4	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lend	iobj
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lantern	nmod:poss
7	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lend	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dark	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 dark	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dark	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 dark	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 dark	advmod
14	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lend	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 afraid	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 afraid	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 afraid	cop
18	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dark	advcl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 fall	nsubj
20	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fall	aux
21	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 afraid	ccomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 ditch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ditch	det
24	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fall	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lend	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 lend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lend	must	you	your lantern	me		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient lantern=Theme
2	is	present	the night			dark property	tree rules
3	is	present	I			afraid property	tree rules
4	fall	might	I			into the ditch result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result

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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