The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

“Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, “as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans.

Who acts: Linnet, winter, primroses, Miller, sympathy · What happens: say, hop, be, begin, open, go down · To what, where: one leg, pale yellow stars, little Hans · 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 (Linnet, winter, primroses, Miller), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Linnet	det
7	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hopping	punct
9	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 hopping	advmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 leg	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 leg	nummod
13	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hopping	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 other	cc
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 other	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 other	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 other	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 over	punct
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 over	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 over	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 winter	det
25	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 over	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 over	cop
27	over	over	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 primroses	det
31	primroses	primrose	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 open	mark
34	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 stars	nmod:poss
36	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stars	amod
37	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stars	amod
38	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 open	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Miller	det
41	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 began	conj
43	to	to	ADP	_	45 wife	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 said	obl
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 go	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 said	ccomp
50	down	down	ADV	_	49 go	advmod
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 see	cc
52	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 go	conj
53	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Hans	amod
54	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	52 see	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Linnet					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hop	gerund	the Linnet not said here		one leg	now		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory
3	is in a quote	past	the winter				over, soon property	tree rules
4	begin in a quote	past	the primroses					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	open in a quote	to-infinitive	the primroses not said here	primroses's pale yellow stars				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=Theme
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Miller				to sympathy's wife	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic
7	go down in a quote	would	sympathy				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
8	see in a quote	present	sympathy not said here	little Hans				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=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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