The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
“‘Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘I will give you my wheelbarrow.
Who acts: Hans, Linnet · What happens: say, give · To what, where: wheelbarrow, you · 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, Linnet), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hans | punct |
| 3 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hans | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Hans | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Miller | det |
| 8 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wheelbarrow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wheelbarrow | wheelbarrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Hans | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | the Linnet = linnet | my wheelbarrow | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=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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