The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 30
“But somehow he was never able to look after his flowers at all, for his friend the Miller was always coming round and sending him off on long errands, or getting him to help at the mill.
Who acts: Miller, friend · What happens: not be, look, come round, send off, get, help · To what, where: Miller, long errands, mill
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, friend), 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 | _ | 7 able | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 able | cc |
| 3 | somehow | somehow | ADV | _ | 7 able | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 able | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 able | cop |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 able | advmod |
| 7 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 able | xcomp |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 flowers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 flowers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 look | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 look | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 friend | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 friend | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 coming | nsubj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Miller | det |
| 20 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 friend | appos |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 coming | aux |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 coming | advmod |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 look | parataxis |
| 24 | round | round | ADV | _ | 23 coming | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 sending | cc |
| 26 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 coming | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 sending | obj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 sending | compound:prt |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 errands | case |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 errands | amod |
| 31 | errands | errand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sending | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 getting | punct |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 getting | cc |
| 34 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 coming | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 getting | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 help | mark |
| 37 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 getting | advcl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 mill | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mill | det |
| 40 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 help | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | past | Miller | able, somehow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | Miller not said here | after Miller's flowers | at all | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme | |||
| 3 | come round in a quote | past · progressive | Miller's friend | always, round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send off in a quote | gerund | Miller's friend not said here | Miller | long errands | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 5 | get in a quote | gerund | Miller's friend not said here | Miller | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | Miller's friend not said here | the mill | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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