The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 23

“‘Oh! they will come to you,’ said the Miller, ‘but you must take more pains.

Who acts: ideas, Miller, you · What happens: come, say, take · To what, where: you, more pains · 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 (ideas, Miller, 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	_	12 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 come	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Oh	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 come	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 you	case
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 come	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Miller	det
14	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 take	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 take	aux
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 pains	amod
22	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 take	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come in a quote	future	ideas = idea		you	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location
2	say speech: express in a quote	past	the Miller			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	must	you	more pains		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Theme

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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