The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 111
“‘My dear friend, my best friend,’ cried little Hans, ‘you are welcome to all the flowers in my garden.
Who acts: dear friend, you · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: little Hans
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 (dear friend, you), 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 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 3 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 friend | amod |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 friend | amod |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 friend | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Hans | amod |
| 14 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 welcome | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 welcome | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 welcome | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 welcome | cop |
| 19 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cried | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 flowers | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 flowers | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 flowers | det |
| 23 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 welcome | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 garden | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 garden | nmod:poss |
| 26 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flowers | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | My dear friend and my best friend | little Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | to all flowers in my garden; welcome 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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