The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 126
Give me rainy weather and a ditch, and I am quite happy.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, be · To what, where: rainy weather, me
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. 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), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weather | amod |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ditch | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ditch | det |
| 7 | ditch | ditch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weather | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 happy | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 happy | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 happy | cop |
| 12 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Give | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | rainy weather and a ditch | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient weather=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | I | happy property | tree rules |
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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