The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 108
“‘Quite full?’ said little Hans, rather sorrowfully, for it was really a very big basket, and he knew that if he filled it he would have no flowers left for the market and he was very anxious to get his silver buttons back.
Who acts: basket, plank, silver · What happens: say, be, know, fill, have, leave · To what, where: little Hans, basket, flowers · 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 (basket, plank, silver), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 3 | Quite | quite | ADV | _ | 4 full | advmod |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Hans | amod |
| 9 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sorrowfully | punct |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 sorrowfully | advmod |
| 12 | sorrowfully | sorrowfully | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 basket | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 basket | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 basket | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 basket | cop |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 basket | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 basket | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 big | advmod |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 basket | amod |
| 21 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 knew | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 filled | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 filled | nsubj |
| 29 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | advcl |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 filled | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 32 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | aux |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 knew | ccomp |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 flowers | det |
| 35 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 flowers | acl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 market | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 market | det |
| 39 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 left | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 anxious | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 anxious | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 anxious | cop |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 anxious | advmod |
| 44 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 knew | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 get | mark |
| 46 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 anxious | advcl |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 silver | nmod:poss |
| 48 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 buttons | nsubj |
| 49 | buttons | button | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 get | ccomp |
| 50 | back | back | ADV | _ | 49 buttons | advmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | little Hans | sorrowfully property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | basket | for a big basket | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | plank | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | plank | basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | would | plank | no flowers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave in a quote | participle | no flowers not said here | for the market | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent for market=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | past | plank | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | plank not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 9 | button back in a quote | present | plank's silver | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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