The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 157

In fact, you should take example by me; you could not possibly have a better model.

Who acts: you · What happens: take, not have · To what, where: example, fact, better model

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), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 take	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 take	aux
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 me	case
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 take	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 have	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 have	advmod
14	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	15 have	advmod
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 model	det
17	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 model	amod
18	model	model	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	should	you	example		fact		by me	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent example=Value in fact=Location
2	not have	could	you	a better model				possibly property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent model=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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