The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red rose, White rose”; and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled.

Who acts: everybody, Red, King · What happens: go, say, rise, give, double · To what, where: White rose, Red rose, orders, salary · 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 (everybody, Red, King), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 days	nummod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 went	obl
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	9 saying	mark
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 rose	punct
12	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rose	amod
13	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rose	punct
15	Red	Red	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rose	nsubj
16	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
18	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rose	amod
19	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rose	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rose	punct
21	White	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rose	amod
22	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rose	conj
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 rose	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 gave	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 gave	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
29	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 gave	obj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 doubled	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Page	det
32	Page	Page	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 salary	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Page	case
34	salary	salary	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 doubled	nsubj:pass
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 doubled	aux:pass
36	to	to	PART	_	38 doubled	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 doubled	aux:pass
38	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 gave	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	everybody		day	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	everybody not said here	White rose		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rose=Topic
3	rise in a quote	past	Red	Red rose and White rose		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme
4	give	past	the King	orders		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
5	double	past · passive		the Page's salary		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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