The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 105

“‘It is not a very big plank,’ said the Miller, looking at it, ‘and I am afraid that after I have mended my barn-roof there won’t be any left for you to mend the wheelbarrow with; but, of course, that is not my fault.

Who acts: shed, big plank, you, that · What happens: not be, say, look, be, mend, not leave · To what, where: big plank, barn roof, wheelbarrow · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shed, big plank, you, that), 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	_	12 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 plank	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 plank	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 plank	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 plank	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 plank	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 big	advmod
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plank	amod
9	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plank	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 plank	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Miller	det
14	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 looking	punct
16	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 ‘	punct
20	‘	‘	INTJ	_	16 looking	discourse
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 afraid	cc
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 afraid	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 afraid	cop
24	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 mended	mark
26	after	after	SCONJ	_	29 mended	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 mended	nsubj
28	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 mended	aux
29	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 left	advcl
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 roof	nmod:poss
31	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 roof	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 barn	punct
33	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mended	obj
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 mended	advmod
35	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 left	aux
36	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 left	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 left	aux:pass
38	any	any	ADV	_	39 left	advmod
39	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 afraid	ccomp
40	for	for	SCONJ	_	43 mend	mark
41	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 mend	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 mend	mark
43	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 left	advcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 wheelbarrow	det
45	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mend	obj
46	with	with	ADP	_	43 mend	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	57 fault	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 fault	cc
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 but	punct
50	of	of	ADP	_	57 fault	case
51	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 of	fixed
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 fault	punct
53	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	57 fault	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 fault	cop
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 fault	advmod
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 fault	nmod:poss
57	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	ccomp
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	shed	a big plank			tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a big plank				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	look in a quote	gerund	a big plank not said here			at shed	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme
4	is in a quote	present	a big plank = plank			afraid property	tree rules
5	mend in a quote	present · perfect	a big plank = plank	my barn roof	there		tree rules
6	not leave in a quote	future · passive	a big plank = plank not said here			any property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»
7	mend in a quote	to-infinitive	you	the wheelbarrow			tree rules
8	not is in a quote	present	that			of my fault	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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