The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 26

“‘I have no doubt of it,’ answered the Miller, ‘but now that you have mended the roof, you had better go home and rest, for I want you to drive my sheep to the mountain to-morrow.’

Who acts: I, Miller · What happens: have, answer, mend, go, rest, want · To what, where: doubt, Miller, roof, sheep, mountain · 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 (I, 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	_	11 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	ccomp
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 doubt	det
6	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doubt	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Miller	det
13	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 answered	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mended	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 mended	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 mended	cc
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 mended	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 mended	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 mended	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 mended	aux
21	mended	mend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 answered	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 roof	det
23	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mended	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	conj
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 had	xcomp
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 go	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rest	cc
31	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 go	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 want	punct
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 want	case
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 want	nsubj
35	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 rest	advcl
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 want	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 drive	mark
38	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 want	xcomp
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sheep	nmod:poss
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 drive	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 mountain	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mountain	det
43	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drive	obl
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 morrow	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 to	punct
46	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 drive	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I	no doubt of doubt					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
2	answer speech: assert in a quote	past			the Miller				tree rules
3	mend in a quote	present · perfect	the Miller = miller	the roof			now		tree rules
4	have in a quote	past	the Miller = miller					good property	tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	the Miller = miller not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rest in a quote	infinitive	the Miller = miller not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	want in a quote	present	I	the Miller = miller					tree rules
8	drive not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Miller = miller not said here	my sheep		the mountain		to morrow	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme to mountain=Destination to morrow=Initial_Location
9	doubt in a quote			doubt					nom doubt «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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