The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 53

“‘How well you talk!’ said the Miller’s Wife, pouring herself out a large glass of warm ale; ‘really I feel quite drowsy.

Who acts: you, cask · What happens: talk, say, pour out, feel · To what, where: Wife · 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 (you, cask), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
3	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 well	advmod
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 talk	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 talk	nsubj
6	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 talk	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Miller	det
11	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Wife	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 Miller	case
13	Wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pouring	punct
15	pouring	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 said	advcl
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 pouring	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 pouring	compound:prt
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 glass	det
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 glass	amod
20	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pouring	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ale	case
22	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ale	amod
23	ale	ale	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 glass	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 feel	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	28 feel	punct
26	really	really	ADV	_	28 feel	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 feel	nsubj
28	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 drowsy	advmod
30	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 feel	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	present	you		well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the Miller's Wife		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic
3	pour out in a quote	gerund		wife		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme glass=Destination
4	feel in a quote	present	cask		drowsy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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