The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 119

The Giant was very kind to all the children, yet he longed for his first little friend, and often spoke of him.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: be, long, speak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Giant	det
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 kind	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 kind	advmod
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 children	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 children	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 children	det
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kind	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 longed	punct
11	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	13 longed	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 longed	nsubj
13	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kind	parataxis
14	for	for	ADP	_	18 friend	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friend	nmod:poss
16	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 friend	amod
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 friend	amod
18	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 longed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
21	often	often	ADV	_	22 spoke	advmod
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 longed	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Giant	to all children; kind property	tree rules
2	long	past	Giant	for Giant's first little friend	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for friend=Theme
3	speak speech: other	past	Giant not said here	of Giant; often property	vn talk-37.5 «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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