The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 112

I would much sooner have your good opinion than my silver buttons, any day’; and he ran and plucked all his pretty primroses, and filled the Miller’s basket.

Who acts: I, friend, your · What happens: have, run, pluck, fill, opine · To what, where: good opinion, pretty primroses, basket

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, friend, your), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 sooner	advmod
4	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 opinion	nmod:poss
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 opinion	amod
8	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 buttons	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 buttons	nmod:poss
11	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 buttons	compound
12	buttons	button	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 opinion	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 opinion	parataxis
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 plucked	cc
22	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	conj
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 primroses	det:predet
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 primroses	nmod:poss
25	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 primroses	amod
26	primroses	primrose	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 plucked	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 filled	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 filled	cc
29	filled	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ran	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Miller	det
31	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 basket	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Miller	case
33	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	would	I	your good opinion	than my silver buttons; soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient
2	run	past	friend			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pluck	past	friend not said here	friend's pretty primroses		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent primrose=Patient
4	fill	past	friend not said here	the Miller's basket		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
5	opine		your		than my silver buttons	nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent than=obl

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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