The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 72

He has a fever, and is asking for oranges.

Who acts: boy · What happens: have, ask · To what, where: fever

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 (boy), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fever	det
4	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 asking	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asking	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asking	aux
8	asking	ask	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 has	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 oranges	case
10	oranges	orange	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asking	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	boy	a fever					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	present · progressive	boy not said here					for oranges	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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