The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 29
“Little Hans had a great many friends, but the most devoted friend of all was big Hugh the Miller.
Who acts: Little Hans, devoted friend · What happens: have, be · To what, where: great many friends
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 (Little Hans, devoted 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hans | amod |
| 3 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 friends | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 big | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 big | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 friend | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 devoted | advmod |
| 13 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friend | amod |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 big | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 friend | nmod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 big | cop |
| 18 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Hugh | amod |
| 19 | Hugh | Hugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Miller | det |
| 21 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Hugh | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | Little Hans | a great many friends | big Hugh obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | the devoted friend of all | big 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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