The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 25

“Ah! but we have, in our dreams,” answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.

Who acts: we, children, Mathematical Master, Master, our · What happens: have, answer, frown, look, not approve, dream · To what, where: dreams · 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 (we, children, Mathematical Master, Master), 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	_	13 answered	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 have	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 have	cc
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dreams	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 dreams	case
9	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dreams	nmod:poss
10	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 children	det
15	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 frowned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 frowned	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Master	det
19	Mathematical	Mathematical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Master	amod
20	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 frowned	nsubj
21	frowned	frown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 looked	cc
23	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 frowned	conj
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 severe	advmod
25	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 looked	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 approve	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 approve	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 approve	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 approve	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 approve	advmod
31	approve	approve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 frowned	advcl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 approve	obl
34	dreaming	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 children	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	we	our dreams		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=Patient
2	answer speech: express	past	the children			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	frown	past	the Mathematical Master			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	look	past	the Mathematical Master not said here		severe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	not approve	past · do-support	Master		of children	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	dream	gerund	children not said here			vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
7	dream in a quote		our			nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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