The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 52
“If you want to give pleasure to others,” cried the Roman Candle, “you had better keep yourself dry.”
Who acts: you, Roman Candle · What happens: want, give, cry, have, keep · To what, where: pleasure, others, yourself · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Roman Candle), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 want | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 give | mark |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 others | case |
| 9 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Candle | det |
| 14 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Candle | amod |
| 15 | Candle | Candle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 cried | conj |
| 20 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 had | xcomp |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 22 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 keep | obj |
| 23 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 keep | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | pleasure | others | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme to other=Recipient | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the Roman Candle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
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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