The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 121
“‘Well, really,’ said the Miller, ‘I think that, considering that I am going to give you my wheelbarrow, it is rather unfriendly of you to refuse.’
Who acts: Miller, great many people, wheelbarrow · What happens: say, think, consider, go, give, be · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you · 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 (Miller, great many people, wheelbarrow), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 really | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 think | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 think | nsubj |
| 14 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 considering | mark |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 considering | punct |
| 17 | considering | consider | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 think | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 considering | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 give | mark |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 give | iobj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 unfriendly | punct |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 unfriendly | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 unfriendly | cop |
| 30 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 31 unfriendly | advmod |
| 31 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 think | conj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 unfriendly | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 refuse | mark |
| 35 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 unfriendly | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | 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 | the Miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | a great many people = people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | consider in a quote | gerund | a great many people = people not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | a great many people = people | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | a great many people = people not said here | my wheelbarrow | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | |||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | wheelbarrow | of you; unfriendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | refuse in a quote | to-infinitive | wheelbarrow not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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