The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 31

“‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas.

Who acts: Real friends, Miller, little Hans · What happens: have, use, say, nod, smile, feel · To what, where: everything, common, friend · 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 (Real friends, Miller, little Hans), 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	_	6 have	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 friends	punct
3	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 friends	amod
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 have	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 common	case
9	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
11	’	'	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Miller	det
13	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 say	mark
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 nodded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nodded	cc
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Hans	amod
20	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	21 nodded	nsubj
21	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smiled	cc
23	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 nodded	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 felt	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 felt	cc
26	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 used	conj
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 proud	advmod
28	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 felt	xcomp
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 having	mark
30	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 proud	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 friend	det
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 having	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 ideas	case
34	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ideas	amod
35	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 ideas	amod
36	ideas	idea	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 having	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	should	Real friends	everything	common		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
2	use in a quote	past	the Miller				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	nod in a quote	past	little Hans				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	smile in a quote	past	little Hans not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	feel in a quote	past	the Miller not said here			proud property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	have in a quote	gerund	the Miller not said here	a friend		with such noble ideas	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient

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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