The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 42
“‘But could we not ask little Hans up here?’ said the Miller’s youngest son.
Who acts: we · What happens: not ask, say · To what, where: little Hans · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 3 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 ask | advmod |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Hans | amod |
| 9 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 ask | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 here | advmod |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ask | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Miller | det |
| 16 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Miller | case |
| 18 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | could | we | little Hans | here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent han=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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