The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 98

“Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny.

Who acts: Tree, Wind, boy · What happens: climb up, say, bend, be · To what, where: branches · 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 (Tree, Wind, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Climb	punct
2	Climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Climb	compound:prt
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Climb	punct
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Climb	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Climb	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Climb	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tree	det
11	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bent	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bent	nsubj
15	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 branches	nmod:poss
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bent	obj
18	down	down	ADV	_	20 low	advmod
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 low	advmod
20	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bent	advcl
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 could	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 could	nsubj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 low	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 tiny	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 tiny	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tiny	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 tiny	cop
29	too	too	ADV	_	30 tiny	advmod
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up in a quote	infinitive				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	the Tree			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bend	past	Wind	Wind's branches		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent branch=Material
4	is	past	the boy		tiny property	tree rules

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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