The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 16

Now, if you could plough the fields like the ox, or draw a cart like the horse, or look after the sheep like the collie-dog, that would be something.”

Who acts: you, that · What happens: plough, draw, look, be · To what, where: fields, cart, something

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, that), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 plough	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 plough	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 plough	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 plough	aux
6	plough	plough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fields	det
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plough	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 ox	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ox	det
11	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fields	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 draw	punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 draw	cc
14	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plough	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cart	det
16	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obj
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 horse	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 horse	det
19	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draw	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 look	cc
22	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 plough	conj
23	after	after	ADP	_	25 sheep	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sheep	det
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	obl
26	like	like	ADP	_	30 dog	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dog	det
28	collie	collie	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dog	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 collie	punct
30	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sheep	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 something	punct
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 something	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 something	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 something	cop
35	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	22 look	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 plough	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 plough	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	plough	could	you	the fields	now	like the ox	vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location
2	draw	infinitive	you not said here	a cart		like the horse	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
3	look	infinitive	you not said here		after the sheep like the collie dog		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	would	that	something			tree rules

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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