The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 78
“‘Hans, I am surprised at you,’ said the Miller; ‘friendship never forgets.
Who acts: Hans, Miller, friendship · What happens: be, say, not forget · 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 (Hans, Miller, friendship), 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 | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hans | punct |
| 3 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hans | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 surprised | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 surprised | cop |
| 7 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 surprised | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 surprised | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Miller | det |
| 14 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgets | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 forgets | punct |
| 17 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 forgets | nsubj |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 forgets | advmod |
| 19 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Hans | at you; surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not forget in a quote | present | friendship | tree rules |
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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