The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 29
“‘What a delightful time I shall have in my garden,’ he said, and he went to work at once.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: have, say, go, work · To what, where: garden · 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 3 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 6 time | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garden | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 garden | nmod:poss |
| 12 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 work | mark |
| 22 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 went | xcomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 work | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | Miller | my garden | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Miller | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | past | Miller | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | work in a quote | to-infinitive | Miller not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=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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