The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 104

But the winter has chilled my veins, and the frost has nipped my buds, and the storm has broken my branches, and I shall have no roses at all this year.”

Who acts: I · What happens: chill, nip, break, have · To what, where: winter, frost, storm, roses, all

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 chilled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chilled	nsubj:pass
4	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 chilled	aux
5	chilled	chill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 veins	nmod:poss
7	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chilled	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nipped	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nipped	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 frost	det
11	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nipped	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 nipped	aux
13	nipped	nip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chilled	conj
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 buds	nmod:poss
15	buds	bud	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 nipped	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broken	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broken	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 storm	det
19	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broken	nsubj:pass
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 broken	aux
21	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chilled	parataxis
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 branches	nmod:poss
23	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 broken	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 have	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 broken	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 roses	det
30	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 have	obj
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 have	obl
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 year	det
34	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obl:unmarked
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 chilled	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 chilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	chill	present · perfect · passive		the winter			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer vein=Result
2	nip	present · perfect · passive		the frost			tree rules
3	break	present · perfect · passive		the storm			vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient branch=Result
4	have	shall	I	no roses	all	year	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient

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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