The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 46

Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our good supper, and our great cask of red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature.

Who acts: little Hans, great cask, envy, our · What happens: come up, see, get, be, spoil, fire · To what, where: warm fire, terrible thing, nature

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 (little Hans, great cask, envy, our), 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Hans	amod
5	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
7	up	up	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saw	cc
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 fire	nmod:poss
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fire	amod
14	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 supper	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 supper	cc
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 supper	nmod:poss
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 supper	amod
19	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 get	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 get	cc
22	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cask	nmod:poss
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cask	amod
24	cask	cask	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 wine	case
26	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wine	amod
27	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cask	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cask	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 get	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saw	conj
32	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 get	xcomp
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thing	cc
35	envy	envy	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thing	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 thing	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 thing	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 terrible	advmod
39	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 thing	amod
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 spoil	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 spoil	cc
43	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 spoil	aux
44	spoil	spoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 saw	conj
45	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	47 nature	nmod:poss
46	’s	's	PART	_	45 anybody	case
47	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 spoil	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up a condition, not said to happen	past	little Hans		here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past		our warm fire			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus
3	get	might	our great cask of red wine			envious property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	present	envy	a terrible thing			tree rules
5	spoil	would		anybody's nature			tree rules
6	fire		our				nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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