The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 20

“‘Ah!’ said the Miller, ‘there is no work so delightful as the work one does for others.’

Who acts: Miller · What happens: say, be, do · 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	_	6 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
3	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Ah	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Miller	det
8	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 delightful	cop
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 work	det
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 is	nsubj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 delightful	advmod
16	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 does	csubj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 work	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 work	det
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delightful	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 work	flat
21	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 others	case
23	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 does	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: express in a quote	past	the Miller		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present		as the work; delightful property	tree rules
3	do in a quote	present		for others	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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