The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 113
“‘Good-bye, little Hans,’ said the Miller, as he went up the hill with the plank on his shoulder, and the big basket in his hand.
Who acts: Good little Hans, friend · What happens: say, go up · To what, where: big basket, hill, shoulder · 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 (Good little Hans, friend), 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 | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Good | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hans | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 3 Good | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 little | punct |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hans | amod |
| 8 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hans | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hans | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Miller | det |
| 13 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 went | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 went | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hill | det |
| 20 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 plank | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plank | det |
| 23 | plank | plank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 shoulder | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 basket | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 basket | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 basket | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 basket | amod |
| 31 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 hand | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hand | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 basket | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Good little Hans | the big basket in friend's hand | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go up in a quote | past | friend | the hill | friend's shoulder | with the plank | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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