The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 44

“‘What a silly boy you are!’ cried the Miller; ‘I really don’t know what is the use of sending you to school.

Who acts: silly boy, clergyman, use · What happens: boy, cry, not know, be, send · To what, where: Miller, use, you, school

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 (silly boy, clergyman, use), 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	_	11 cried	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
3	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 boy	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	acl:relcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Miller	det
13	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 use	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 know	nsubj
17	really	really	ADV	_	20 know	advmod
18	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 know	aux
19	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 know	advmod
20	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 use	parataxis
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 use	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 use	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 use	det
24	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 sending	mark
26	sending	send	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 use	acl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 sending	iobj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 school	case
29	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sending	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	boy in a quote						tree rules
2	cry speech: express in a quote	past	a silly boy	the Miller			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	the clergyman = clergyman				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present		the use			tree rules
5	send in a quote	gerund	the use not said here		you	school	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to school=Destination

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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