The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 114
“‘Good-bye,’ said little Hans, and he began to dig away quite merrily, he was so pleased about the wheelbarrow.
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, begin, dig away, be · To what, where: little Hans · 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 (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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Good | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 5 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 3 Good | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bye | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Good | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hans | amod |
| 10 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 began | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dig | mark |
| 16 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 dig | advmod |
| 18 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 19 merrily | advmod |
| 19 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 16 dig | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pleased | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pleased | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pleased | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 pleased | advmod |
| 24 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 began | conj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 27 wheelbarrow | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wheelbarrow | det |
| 27 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pleased | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 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 | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent han=Topic | |||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | past | friend | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | dig away in a quote | to-infinitive | friend not said here | away, merrily property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | friend | about the wheelbarrow; pleased 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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