The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
“He worked there all day long, till sunset, and at sunset the Miller came to see how he was getting on.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: work, come, see, get on · 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), 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 | _ | 3 worked | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 worked | nsubj |
| 3 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 worked | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 worked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sunset | punct |
| 9 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 sunset | case |
| 10 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worked | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 sunset | case |
| 14 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Miller | det |
| 16 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 worked | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 came | advcl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 getting | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 getting | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 getting | aux |
| 23 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 see | ccomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 getting | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work in a quote | past | Miller | there | day | sunset vocative; long property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | the Miller | sunset | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | the Miller not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get on in a quote | past · progressive | Miller | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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