The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 158

Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, for I am going back to Court almost immediately.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: have, go back · To what, where: yourself, better avail, Court

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 have	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chance	det
6	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 yourself	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chance	acl:relcl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 avail	amod
10	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 have	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 yourself	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 going	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 going	mark
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 going	nsubj
17	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 going	aux
18	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 have	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 Court	case
21	Court	Court	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl
22	almost	almost	ADV	_	23 immediately	advmod
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 going	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	yourself		now		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	you	better avail				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avail=Patient
3	go back	present · progressive	I		Court		immediately property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to court=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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