The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 35

In the winter, also, he was extremely lonely, as the Miller never came to see him then.

Who acts: Hans, Miller · What happens: be, not come, see · To what, where: Hans

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, Miller), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 winter	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 winter	det
3	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lonely	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 winter	punct
5	also	also	ADV	_	10 lonely	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lonely	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lonely	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lonely	cop
9	extremely	extremely	ADV	_	10 lonely	advmod
10	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Miller	det
14	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 came	advmod
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lonely	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 see	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lonely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Hans		winter	extremely, lonely property	tree rules
2	not come	past	the Miller				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here	Hans	then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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