The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 18
“‘Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?’ cried the Miller in a cheery voice.
Who acts: you · What happens: have, mend, cry · To what, where: little Hans, hole, roof, Miller, cheery voice · 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 (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 | _ | 17 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Have | punct |
| 3 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 mended | nsubj |
| 5 | mended | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Have | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mended | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 roof | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 roof | det |
| 10 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 mended | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hans | punct |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Hans | amod |
| 14 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Have | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 Have | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Have | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Miller | det |
| 19 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 voice | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 voice | det |
| 22 | cheery | cheery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 voice | amod |
| 23 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | little Hans | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mend in a quote | past | you | the hole | the roof | yet | tree rules | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the Miller | a cheery voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic |
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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