The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 1

“Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy,” said the Dragon-fly; and he spread a pair of lovely gauze wings and soared away into the sky.

Who acts: you, Dragon fly, fly · What happens: lecture, say, spread, soar away · To what, where: Philosophy, pair, sky · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Dragon fly, fly), 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	_	6 lecture	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lecture	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 lecture	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 lecture	aux
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 lecture	advmod
6	lecture	lecture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 Philosophy	case
8	Philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lecture	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lecture	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 lecture	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 fly	det
13	Dragon	Dragon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 fly	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Dragon	punct
15	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 spread	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spread	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 spread	nsubj
19	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pair	det
21	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spread	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 wings	case
23	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wings	amod
24	gauze	gauze	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wings	compound
25	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 pair	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 soared	cc
27	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spread	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 soared	advmod
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 sky	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sky	det
31	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 soared	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lecture speech: other in a quote	should	you		Philosophy	then	certainly property	vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Dragon fly					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spread	past	fly	a pair of lovely gauze wings				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pair=Theme
4	soar away	past	fly not said here		the sky		away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory

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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