The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

“We will go to sleep now,” they said, “and when we wake up the kettle will be boiled”; and they lay down on the grass, and shut their eyes.

Who acts: We, boys · What happens: go, sleep, say, wake up, boil, lay down · To what, where: kettle, grass, eyes · 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 (We, boys), 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	_	4 go	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sleep	mark
6	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	xcomp
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 sleep	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wake	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 wake	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wake	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 wake	advmod
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wake	nsubj
17	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 wake	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 kettle	det
20	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 boiled	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 boiled	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 boiled	aux:pass
23	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 wake	parataxis
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	23 boiled	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 lay	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 lay	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 lay	advmod
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 grass	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grass	det
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lay	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 shut	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 shut	cc
35	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 eyes	nmod:poss
37	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 shut	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	We					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	sleep in a quote	to-infinitive	We not said here			now		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	boys = boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	wake up in a quote	present	we					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	boil in a quote	future · passive		the kettle				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	lay down	present	boys = boy		the grass		down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on grass=Destination
7	shut	past	boys = boy not said here	boys's eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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