The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 64
You will see them twinkle when I talk to them about the pretty bride.”
Who acts: You, stars, I · What happens: see, twinkle, talk · To what, where: stars
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, stars, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 see | obj |
| 5 | twinkle | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | xcomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 talk | advmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 talk | nsubj |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 twinkle | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 talk | obl |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 14 bride | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bride | det |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bride | amod |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | future | You | stars = star | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | twinkle | infinitive | stars = star not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | talk | present | I | stars = star | about the pretty bride | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Agent about bride=Topic |
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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