The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 117
“There was the Miller with a large sack of flour on his back.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: be
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 (Miller), 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 | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Miller | det |
| 5 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sack | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sack | amod |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 flour | case |
| 11 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sack | nmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flour | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | the Miller | there | with a large sack of flour on friend's back | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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