The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 118
“‘Dear little Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?’
Who acts: Dear little Hans, you · What happens: say, mind, carry · To what, where: sack · 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 (Dear little Hans, 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 3 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hans | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hans | amod |
| 5 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Miller | det |
| 10 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 mind | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nsubj |
| 15 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 mind | xcomp |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 sack | det |
| 18 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 flour | case |
| 20 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sack | nmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 market | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 market | nsubj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 market | mark |
| 24 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | Dear little Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mind in a quote | would | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | gerund | you not said here | this sack of flour | for market | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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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