The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 104
“‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, and he ran into the shed and dragged the plank out.
Who acts: plank · What happens: cry, run, drag out · To what, where: little Hans, shed, plank
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plank), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Certainly | punct |
| 3 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 6 cried | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 6 cried | cc |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hans | amod |
| 8 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ran | nsubj |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 shed | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shed | det |
| 15 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ran | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dragged | cc |
| 17 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 ran | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 plank | det |
| 19 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dragged | obj |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 dragged | compound:prt |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | little Hans | certainly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | past | plank | the shed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into shed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | drag out in a quote | past | plank not said here | the plank | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Theme |
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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