The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 73

His mother has nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying.

Who acts: mother, boy · What happens: have, give, cry · To what, where: nothing, boy

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 (mother, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mother	nmod:poss
2	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 has	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nothing	acl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 water	cc
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 water	compound
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 crying	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 crying	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 crying	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 crying	aux
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 has	conj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	have	present	boy's mother	nothing		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
2	give	to-infinitive	boy's mother not said here	nothing not said here	boy	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	cry speech: express	present · progressive	boy			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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