The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 16
“‘Oh! on no account,’ cried little Hans and he jumped out of bed, and dressed himself, and went up to the barn.
Who acts: ’, Miller · What happens: cry, jump out, dress, go up · To what, where: little Hans, bed, Miller
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), 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 account | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 account | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 account | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 account | case |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 account | det |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 account | conj |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Hans | amod |
| 12 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 jumped | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jumped | nsubj |
| 15 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bed | case |
| 18 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jumped | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dressed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dressed | cc |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 dressed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dressed | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 went | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 barn | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 barn | det |
| 29 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 account | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | ’ | little Hans | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic | ||||
| 2 | jump out in a quote | past | Miller | bed | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bed=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | dress in a quote | past | Miller | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||||
| 4 | go up in a quote | past | to the barn | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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