The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 5

“Nothing of the kind,” answered the Duck, “every one must make a beginning, and parents cannot be too patient.”

Who acts: Nothing, one, parents · What happens: answer, make, not be · To what, where: Duck, beginning · 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 (Nothing, one, parents), 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	_	2 Nothing	punct
2	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 answered	nsubj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 kind	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Nothing	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Duck	det
10	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 beginning	det
18	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 patient	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 patient	cc
21	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 patient	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 patient	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 patient	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 patient	cop
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 patient	advmod
26	patient	patient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 make	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Nothing		the Duck		tree rules
2	make in a quote	must	every one	a beginning			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beginning=Product
3	not is in a quote	can	parents			patient property	tree rules

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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