The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 75

I am afraid I had rather a hard time of it, but now the spring has come, and I am quite happy, and all my flowers are doing well.’

Who acts: I, spring, flowers · What happens: be, have, come, do

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 (I, spring, flowers), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 afraid	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	cop
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afraid	ccomp
6	rather	rather	ADV	_	9 time	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
14	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 come	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spring	det
16	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	nsubj
17	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 afraid	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 happy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 happy	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 happy	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 happy	cop
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 happy	advmod
24	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 afraid	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 doing	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 doing	cc
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 flowers	det:predet
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 flowers	nmod:poss
29	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 doing	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 doing	aux
31	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 afraid	ccomp
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 doing	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 doing	punct
34	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		afraid property	tree rules
2	have	past	I	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	come	present · perfect	the spring	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	I		happy property	tree rules
5	do	present · progressive	my flowers		well property	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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