The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

Why, perhaps the Prince and Princess may go to live in a country where there is a deep river, and perhaps they may have one only son, a little fair-haired boy with violet eyes like the Prince himself; and perhaps some day he may go out to walk with his nurse; and perhaps the nurse may go to sleep under a great elder-tree; and perhaps the little boy may fall into the deep river and be drowned.

Who acts: Prince, deep river, Princes, river, nurse, little boy · What happens: go, live, be, have, go out, walk · To what, where: country, one son, great elder tree, deep river

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 (Prince, deep river, Princes, river), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 go	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Prince	det
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 go	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Princess	cc
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Prince	conj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 go	aux
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 live	mark
11	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 country	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 country	det
14	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 live	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 is	advmod
16	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	17 is	expl
17	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 country	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 river	det
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 river	amod
20	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 is	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 have	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 have	cc
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	26 have	advmod
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 have	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 have	aux
26	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 live	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 son	nummod
28	only	only	ADV	_	29 son	advmod
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 have	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 boy	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 boy	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 boy	amod
33	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 haired	amod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 fair	punct
35	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 boy	amod
36	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 son	appos
37	with	with	ADP	_	39 eyes	case
38	violet	violet	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eyes	compound
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 boy	nmod
40	like	like	ADP	_	42 Prince	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Prince	det
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 eyes	nmod
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 boy	nmod
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 go	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 go	cc
46	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	51 go	advmod
47	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	48 day	det
48	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 go	obl:unmarked
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 go	nsubj
50	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 go	aux
51	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
52	out	out	ADV	_	51 go	advmod
53	to	to	PART	_	54 walk	mark
54	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 go	advcl
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 nurse	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 nurse	nmod:poss
57	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 walk	obl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	64 go	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 go	cc
60	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	64 go	advmod
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 nurse	det
62	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 go	nsubj
63	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 go	aux
64	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	conj
65	to	to	PART	_	66 sleep	mark
66	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 go	xcomp
67	under	under	ADP	_	72 tree	case
68	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	72 tree	det
69	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	72 tree	amod
70	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 tree	compound
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 elder	punct
72	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 sleep	obl
73	;	;	PUNCT	_	80 fall	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	80 fall	cc
75	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	80 fall	advmod
76	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	78 boy	det
77	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	78 boy	amod
78	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 fall	nsubj
79	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	80 fall	aux
80	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 go	parataxis
81	into	into	ADP	_	84 river	case
82	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	84 river	det
83	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	84 river	amod
84	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	80 fall	obl
85	and	and	CCONJ	_	87 drowned	cc
86	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	87 drowned	aux:pass
87	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	80 fall	conj
88	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	may	the Prince and Princess				perhaps property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	live	to-infinitive	the Prince and Princess not said here		a country			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location
3	be	present	a deep river		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	may	Princes = prince	one son			perhaps property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
5	go out	may	river			day	out, perhaps property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	walk	to-infinitive	river not said here				with river's nurse	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	may	the nurse				perhaps property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	sleep	to-infinitive	the nurse not said here		a great elder tree			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	fall	may	the little boy				into the deep river result; perhaps property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
10	drown	infinitive · passive	the little boy not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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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