The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 27

“Poor little Hans was afraid to say anything to this, and early the next morning the Miller brought his sheep round to the cottage, and Hans started off with them to the mountain.

Who acts: Poor little Hans, Miller, Hans · What happens: be, say, bring, start off · To what, where: anything, this, next morning, sheep · 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 (Poor little Hans, Miller, Hans), 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 afraid	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hans	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hans	amod
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 afraid	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	cop
6	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 afraid	xcomp
9	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 say	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 anything	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 early	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 early	cc
14	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 afraid	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 morning	amod
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 early	obl:unmarked
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Miller	det
19	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 brought	nsubj
20	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 morning	acl:relcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sheep	nmod:poss
22	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 brought	obj
23	round	round	ADV	_	20 brought	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 cottage	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cottage	det
26	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 brought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 started	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 started	cc
29	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 started	nsubj
30	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 afraid	parataxis
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 started	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 started	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 mountain	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 mountain	det
36	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 started	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Poor little Hans				afraid property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	Poor little Hans not said here	anything	this			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent anything=Topic to this=Recipient
3	be in a quote		Poor little Hans not said here			morning		tree rules
4	bring in a quote	past	the Miller	the next morning not said here	Miller's sheep		to the cottage; round property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination
5	start off in a quote	past	Hans				with sheep; to the mountain	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with they=Subeventuality

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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