The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 122
“‘Oh, don’t say that,’ cried little Hans, ‘I wouldn’t be unfriendly for the whole world’; and he ran in for his cap, and trudged off with the big sack on his shoulders.
Who acts: Hans, great many people · What happens: not say, cry, not be, run, trudge off · To what, where: that, 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 (Hans, great many people), 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 | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 say | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 say | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 say | advmod |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ran | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 say | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | conj |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Hans | amod |
| 13 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 unfriendly | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 unfriendly | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 unfriendly | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 unfriendly | aux |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 unfriendly | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 unfriendly | cop |
| 20 | unfriendly | unfriendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 world | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 world | amod |
| 24 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 unfriendly | obl |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 unfriendly | punct |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ran | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ran | nsubj |
| 29 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | in | in | ADV | _ | 29 ran | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 cap | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cap | nmod:poss |
| 33 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ran | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 trudged | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 trudged | cc |
| 36 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 ran | parataxis |
| 37 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 trudged | compound:prt |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 sack | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sack | det |
| 40 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 sack | amod |
| 41 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 trudged | obl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 shoulders | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 44 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 sack | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Hans not said here | that | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Hans not said here | little Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | would | a great many people = people | for the whole world; unfriendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | run in a quote | past | Hans | for Hans's cap | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for cap=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | trudge off in a quote | participle | with the big sack on Hans's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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