The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 12

“‘Well, I am glad of that,’ said the Miller, clapping little Hans on the back, ‘for I want you to come up to the mill as soon as you are dressed, and mend my barn-roof for me.’

Who acts: Miller, you · What happens: be, say, clap, want, come up, dress · To what, where: little Hans, back, you, mill, barn roof · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	_	12 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 glad	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 glad	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 glad	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 glad	cop
7	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	ccomp
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 glad	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 glad	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 glad	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	_	16 clapping	punct
16	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 said	advcl
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Hans	amod
18	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	16 clapping	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 back	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 back	det
21	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 clapping	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 want	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 want	punct
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 want	case
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 want	nsubj
26	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clapping	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 want	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 come	mark
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 want	xcomp
30	up	up	ADV	_	29 come	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 mill	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 mill	det
33	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 soon	advmod
35	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 come	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 dressed	mark
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 dressed	nsubj
38	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 dressed	aux:pass
39	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 soon	advcl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 mend	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 mend	cc
42	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	conj
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 roof	nmod:poss
44	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 roof	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 barn	punct
46	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 mend	obj
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 me	case
48	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 mend	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the Miller = miller			of that; glad 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	clap in a quote	gerund	the Miller not said here	little Hans	the back		tree rules
4	want in a quote	present	the Miller = miller	you			tree rules
5	come up not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the mill	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mill=Initial_Location
6	dress in a quote	present · passive		you			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	mend in a quote	infinitive	the Miller not said here	my barn roof		for the Miller = miller	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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