The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 21

“‘It is certainly a great privilege to hear you talk,’ answered little Hans, sitting down, and wiping his forehead, ‘a very great privilege.

Who acts: work, great privilege, you · What happens: be, hear, talk, answer, sit down, wipe · To what, where: great privilege, you, little Hans, forehead

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 (work, great privilege, 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	_	15 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 privilege	punct
3	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 privilege	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 privilege	cop
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	8 privilege	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 privilege	det
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 privilege	amod
8	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 privilege	acl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj
12	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hear	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 privilege	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 privilege	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Hans	amod
17	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 sitting	punct
19	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 answered	conj
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 sitting	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wiping	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wiping	cc
23	wiping	wipe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 sitting	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 forehead	nmod:poss
25	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wiping	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 privilege	punct
27	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 privilege	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 privilege	det
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 great	advmod
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 privilege	amod
31	privilege	privilege	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wiping	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	work	a great privilege		certainly property	tree rules
2	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	a great privilege not said here	you			tree rules
3	talk in a quote	infinitive	you not said here				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	a great privilege		little Hans		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality
5	sit down in a quote	gerund	a great privilege not said here			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wipe in a quote	gerund	a great privilege not said here	privilege's forehead		a great privilege obl	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent forehead=Source

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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