The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

During the spring, the summer, and the autumn he was very happy, but when the winter came, and he had no fruit or flowers to bring to the market, he suffered a good deal from cold and hunger, and often had to go to bed without any supper but a few dried pears or some hard nuts.

Who acts: autumn, winter, Hans · What happens: be, come, have, bring, suffer, go · To what, where: fruit, market, good deal, cold, bed

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 (autumn, winter, 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 spring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 spring	det
3	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 summer	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 summer	det
6	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spring	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 happy	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 happy	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 autumn	det
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 happy	nsubj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 happy	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 happy	advmod
14	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spring	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 suffered	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 suffered	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	20 came	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 winter	det
19	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 suffered	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 fruit	det
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 flowers	cc
28	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 fruit	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 bring	mark
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fruit	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 market	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 market	det
33	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bring	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 suffered	nsubj
36	suffered	suffer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 happy	parataxis
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 deal	det
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 deal	amod
39	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 suffered	obj
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 cold	case
41	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 deal	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 hunger	cc
43	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cold	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 had	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 had	cc
46	often	often	ADV	_	47 had	advmod
47	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 suffered	conj
48	to	to	PART	_	49 go	mark
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 had	xcomp
50	to	to	ADP	_	51 bed	case
51	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
52	without	without	ADP	_	54 supper	case
53	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	54 supper	det
54	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 go	obl
55	but	but	CCONJ	_	59 pears	cc
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 pears	det
57	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 pears	amod
58	dried	dried	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 pears	amod
59	pears	pear	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 supper	conj
60	or	or	CCONJ	_	63 nuts	cc
61	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	63 nuts	det
62	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 nuts	amod
63	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 pears	conj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the autumn			happy property	tree rules
2	come	past	the winter				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	Hans	no fruit or flowers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
4	bring	to-infinitive	Hans not said here	no fruit or flowers not said here	the market		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to market=Destination
5	suffer	past	Hans	a good deal	cold and hunger		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus
6	have	past	Hans not said here			often property	tree rules
7	go	to-infinitive	Hans not said here		bed	without any supper but a few dried pears or some hard nuts	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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