The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 117

“Have you any commissions for Egypt?” he cried; “I am just starting.”

Who acts: you, moon · What happens: have, cry, start · To what, where: commissions · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, moon), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 commissions	det
5	commissions	commission	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 Egypt	case
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 starting	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 starting	nsubj
15	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 starting	aux
16	just	just	ADV	_	17 starting	advmod
17	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	you	any commissions	for Egypt	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	moon			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start in a quote	present · progressive	moon			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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