The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 87

You see the winter was a very bad time for me, and I really had no money at all to buy bread with.

Who acts: You, winter, I · What happens: see, be, have, buy · To what, where: bad time, money, all, bread · 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 (You, winter, I), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 winter	det
4	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 bad	advmod
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	ccomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 time	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 had	advmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 money	det
18	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 had	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 buy	mark
22	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 had	advcl
23	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 buy	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	22 buy	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	You				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	the winter	a bad time		for me	tree rules
3	have	past	I	no money	all		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	bread			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme

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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