The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do.
Who acts: Hans, cask, I · What happens: come, ask, let, have, not do · To what, where: me, cask, flour, credit
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 (Hans, cask, 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 5 came | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 Hans | mark |
| 4 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ask | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | nsubj |
| 9 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | aux |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ask | iobj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 let | mark |
| 13 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ask | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 let | obj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 let | xcomp |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 flour | det |
| 17 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 credit | case |
| 19 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 do | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 do | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 do | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 do | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 do | advmod |
| 26 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Hans | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | might | cask | me | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | let not said to happen | to-infinitive | cask not said here | cask | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | infinitive | cask not said here | some flour | credit | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Patient | |||
| 5 | not do | could | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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