The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 43
‘If poor Hans is in trouble I will give him half my porridge, and show him my white rabbits.’
Who acts: poor Hans, I · What happens: be, give, show · To what, where: trouble, porridge, Hans, white rabbits
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 (poor Hans, I), 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 | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 trouble | mark |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hans | amod |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trouble | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 trouble | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 trouble | case |
| 7 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | advcl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 14 porridge | det:predet |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 porridge | nmod:poss |
| 14 | porridge | porridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 show | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 show | cc |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 give | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 show | iobj |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rabbits | nmod:poss |
| 20 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 rabbits | amod |
| 21 | rabbits | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 show | iobj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | poor Hans | trouble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | my porridge | Hans | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient porridge=Theme | |||
| 3 | show | infinitive | I not said here | my white rabbits | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rabbit=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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