The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 55

“‘Lots of people act well,’ answered the Miller; ‘but very few people talk well, which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the finer thing also’; and he looked sternly across the table at his little son, who felt so ashamed of himself that he hung his head down, and grew quite scarlet, and began to cry into his tea.

Who acts: Lots, few people, talking, Hans, little son · What happens: act, answer, talk, show, be, look · To what, where: Miller, difficult thing, head, scarlet, tea · 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 (Lots, few people, talking, Hans), 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	_	10 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 act	punct
3	Lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 act	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 Lots	nmod
6	act	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	advcl
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 act	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 act	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 act	punct
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Miller	det
12	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 talk	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 talk	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 talk	cc
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 few	advmod
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 people	amod
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 talk	nsubj
19	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 talk	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 shows	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 shows	nsubj
23	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 talk	advcl
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 talking	det
25	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thing	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 thing	cop
27	much	much	ADV	_	31 thing	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 thing	det
29	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 difficult	advmod
30	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thing	amod
31	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shows	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 two	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 two	det
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 thing	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 thing	cc
37	much	much	ADV	_	40 thing	advmod
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 thing	det
39	finer	finer	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thing	compound
40	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	parataxis
41	also	also	ADV	_	42 ’	advmod
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	40 thing	punct
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 looked	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 looked	cc
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 looked	nsubj
46	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
47	sternly	sternly	ADV	_	46 looked	advmod
48	across	across	ADP	_	50 table	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 table	det
50	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 looked	obl
51	at	at	ADP	_	54 son	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 son	nmod:poss
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 son	amod
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 looked	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 felt	punct
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 felt	nsubj
57	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 son	acl:relcl
58	so	so	ADV	_	59 ashamed	advmod
59	ashamed	ashamed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 felt	xcomp
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 himself	case
61	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	59 ashamed	obl
62	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 hung	mark
63	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 hung	nsubj
64	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 ashamed	advcl
65	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 head	nmod:poss
66	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 hung	obj
67	down	down	ADV	_	64 hung	advmod
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 grew	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 grew	cc
70	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 felt	conj
71	quite	quite	ADV	_	72 scarlet	advmod
72	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 grew	obj
73	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 began	punct
74	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 began	cc
75	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	70 grew	conj
76	to	to	PART	_	77 cry	mark
77	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 began	xcomp
78	into	into	ADP	_	80 tea	case
79	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	80 tea	nmod:poss
80	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	77 cry	obl
81	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	act in a quote	present	Lots of people				well property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past			the Miller			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miller=Eventuality
3	talk in a quote	present	few people				well property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show in a quote	present						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	that talking	the difficult thing			of the two	tree rules
6	look in a quote	past	Hans				at Hans's little son; across the table; sternly property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across table=Theme
7	feel in a quote	past	Hans's little son				ashamed property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
8	hang down in a quote	past	Hans	Hans's head			down property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
9	grow in a quote	past	Hans's little son not said here	scarlet				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location scarlet=Theme
10	begin in a quote	past	Hans's little son not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	cry speech: express in a quote	to-infinitive	Hans's little son not said here			Hans's tea		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into tea=Recipient

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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