The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 120

“How I would like to see him!” he used to say.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: like, see, use, say · To what, where: Giant · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 like	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 like	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like in a quote	would	Giant		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	Giant not said here	Giant	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	use	past	Giant		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Giant not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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