The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 76

“‘We often talked of you during the winter, Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘and wondered how you were getting on.’

Who acts: We, Miller, you · What happens: talk, say, wonder, get on · 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 (We, Miller, you), 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 talked	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct
3	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 talked	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 talked	advmod
5	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 talked	obl
8	during	during	ADP	_	10 winter	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 talked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Hans	punct
12	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 winter	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 talked	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Miller	det
17	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wondered	punct
19	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	21 wondered	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wondered	cc
21	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 getting	advmod
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 getting	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 getting	aux
25	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 wondered	ccomp
26	on	on	ADP	_	25 getting	compound:prt
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	talk in a quote	past	We	winter	of you; often property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Miller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	wonder speech: ask in a quote	past	the Miller not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	get on in a quote	past · progressive	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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