The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season.

Who acts: friend, handful · What happens: be, not go, lean, pluck, fill · To what, where: wall, large nosegay, pockets, fruit season

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 (friend, handful), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	4 devoted	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 devoted	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 devoted	advmod
4	devoted	devoted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 devoted	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Miller	det
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Miller	amod
8	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 devoted	conj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Hans	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Hans	amod
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Miller	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 go	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 go	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 go	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 go	advmod
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 devoted	conj
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 garden	nmod:poss
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 go	obl
21	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 leaning	mark
22	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 go	advcl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 wall	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 wall	det
25	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leaning	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 plucking	cc
27	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 leaning	conj
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 nosegay	det
29	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 nosegay	amod
30	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 plucking	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 filling	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 filling	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 handful	det
34	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 filling	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 herbs	case
36	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 herbs	amod
37	herbs	herb	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 handful	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 filling	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	40 filling	cc
40	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 devoted	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 pockets	nmod:poss
42	pockets	pocket	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 filling	obj
43	with	with	ADP	_	44 plums	case
44	plums	plum	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 filling	obl
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 cherries	cc
46	cherries	cherry	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 plums	conj
47	if	if	SCONJ	_	52 season	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 season	nsubj
49	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 season	cop
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 season	det
51	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 season	compound
52	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 filling	advcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 devoted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past				devoted, indeed property	tree rules
2	not go	would	friend			by friend's garden	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by garden=Location
3	lean	gerund	friend not said here		the wall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wall=Location
4	pluck	gerund	friend not said here	a large nosegay			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Patient
5	fill	gerund	a handful of sweet herbs	friend's pockets		with plums and cherries	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with plum=Instrument
6	is a a condition, not said to happen	past	handful	the fruit season			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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