The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 109

“‘Well, really,’ answered the Miller, ‘as I have given you my wheelbarrow, I don’t think that it is much to ask you for a few flowers.

Who acts: I, wheelbarrow · What happens: answer, give, not think, be, ask · To what, where: Miller, wheelbarrow, you · 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 (I, wheelbarrow), 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	_	8 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 answered	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	really	really	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 really	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 really	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Miller	det
10	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 think	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 given	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 given	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 given	aux
16	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 think	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 given	iobj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wheelbarrow	nmod:poss
19	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 given	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 given	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 think	nsubj
22	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 think	aux
23	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 think	advmod
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 much	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 much	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 much	cop
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 think	ccomp
29	to	to	PART	_	30 ask	mark
30	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 much	acl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 ask	iobj
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 flowers	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 flowers	det
34	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 flowers	amod
35	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 ask	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past			the Miller		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miller=Eventuality
2	give in a quote	present · perfect	I	my wheelbarrow	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme
3	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	I				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	wheelbarrow			much property	tree rules
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive			you	for a few flowers	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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