The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
“You had really better keep yourself dry,” said the Fire-balloon.
Who acts: You, better, Fire balloon · What happens: have, keep, say · To what, where: 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, better, Fire balloon), 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 | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 better | advmod |
| 5 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 keep | nsubj |
| 6 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | xcomp |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 keep | obj |
| 8 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 balloon | det |
| 13 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 balloon | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Fire | punct |
| 15 | balloon | balloon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep in a quote | infinitive | better | yourself | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Fire balloon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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