The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

“Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed.

Who acts: Miller, little Hans, Hans · What happens: come down, get, be · To what, where: money, bed

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, little Hans, Hans), 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	_	8 came	punct
2	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 morning	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 morning	det
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Miller	det
7	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 came	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 get	mark
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 came	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 money	det
13	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 sack	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 sack	nmod:poss
16	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 get	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 flour	case
18	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sack	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tired	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 tired	cc
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Hans	amod
22	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 tired	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 tired	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 tired	advmod
25	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 came	conj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 bed	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bed	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bed	cop
29	still	still	ADV	_	31 bed	advmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 bed	case
31	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tired	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down in a quote	past	the Miller			morning	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get in a quote	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here	the money			for Miller's sack of flour	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for sack=Source
3	is in a quote	past	little Hans				tired property	tree rules
4	is in a quote	past	Hans		bed	still		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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