The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 45

“I will put up there,” he cried; “it is a fine position, with plenty of fresh air.”

Who acts: wind, statue · What happens: put up, cry, be · To what, where: fine position · 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 (wind, statue), 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 put	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	parataxis
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 put	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 position	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 position	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 position	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 position	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 position	det
16	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 position	amod
17	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 plenty	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 plenty	case
20	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 position	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 air	case
22	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 air	amod
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 plenty	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 plenty	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 position	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	put up in a quote	future	wind		there	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	wind			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	statue	a fine position		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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