The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 13
“Poor little Hans was very anxious to go and work in his garden, for his flowers had not been watered for two days, but he did not like to refuse the Miller, as he was such a good friend to him.
Who acts: Poor little Hans, Hans, Miller · What happens: be, go, work, not water, not like, refuse · To what, where: Miller, good friend, Hans
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 (Poor little Hans, Hans, Miller), 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 anxious | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hans | amod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hans | amod |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 anxious | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 anxious | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 anxious | advmod |
| 7 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anxious | xcomp |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 work | cc |
| 11 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 garden | nmod:poss |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 work | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 watered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 flowers | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 watered | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 watered | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 watered | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 watered | aux:pass |
| 22 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 go | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 days | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 days | nummod |
| 25 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 watered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 like | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 like | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 like | nsubj |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 like | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 like | advmod |
| 31 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 anxious | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 refuse | mark |
| 33 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 like | xcomp |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Miller | det |
| 35 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 refuse | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 friend | punct |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 friend | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 friend | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 friend | cop |
| 40 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 friend | det:predet |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 friend | det |
| 42 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 friend | amod |
| 43 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 refuse | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 him | case |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 friend | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 anxious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | Poor little Hans | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | Poor little Hans not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | work in a quote | infinitive | Poor little Hans not said here | in Hans's garden | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in garden=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not water in a quote | past · perfect · passive | Poor little Hans not said here | day | for Hans's flowers | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||
| 5 | not like in a quote | past · do-support | Hans | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | refuse not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Hans not said here | the Miller | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Theme | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | past | Miller | such good friend | Hans | 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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