The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 36

“‘There is no good in my going to see little Hans as long as the snow lasts,’ the Miller used to say to his wife, ‘for when people are in trouble they should be left alone, and not be bothered by visitors.

Who acts: Linnet, snow, Miller, people, visitors · What happens: be, go, see, last, use, say · To what, where: little Hans, wife, people · 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 (Linnet, snow, Miller, people), 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 good	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
3	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 good	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 going	mark
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 going	nsubj
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 good	advcl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 see	mark
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 going	xcomp
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Hans	amod
13	Hans	han	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	obj
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 long	advmod
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 see	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 lasts	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 snow	det
18	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lasts	nsubj
19	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 long	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 used	punct
21	’	'	CCONJ	_	24 used	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Miller	det
23	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 used	nsubj
24	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 good	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 say	mark
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 used	xcomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 wife	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 left	punct
31	‘	'	PUNCT	_	41 left	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	37 trouble	case
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 trouble	advmod
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trouble	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 trouble	cop
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 trouble	case
37	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 left	obl
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 left	nsubj
39	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 left	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 left	aux:pass
41	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 used	conj
42	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 left	xcomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 bothered	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 bothered	cc
45	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	47 bothered	advmod
46	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 bothered	aux:pass
47	bothered	bother	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 good	conj
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 visitors	case
49	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 bothered	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present				good property	tree rules
2	go in a quote	gerund	the Linnet = linnet				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	to-infinitive	the Linnet = linnet not said here	little Hans		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=Stimulus
4	last in a quote	present	the snow				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
5	use in a quote	past	the Miller				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here		Hans's wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
7	is in a quote	present	people			for trouble	tree rules
8	leave in a quote	should · passive		people		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
9	not bother in a quote	infinitive · passive	visitors				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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