The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 31

Little Hans was very much distressed at times, as he was afraid his flowers would think he had forgotten them, but he consoled himself by the reflection that the Miller was his best friend.

Who acts: Hans, flowers, Miller · What happens: distress, be, think, forget, console · To what, where: Little Hans, flowers, Miller, best friend · 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 (Hans, flowers, 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Hans	amod
2	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 distressed	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distressed	aux:pass
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 distressed	advmod
6	distressed	distress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 times	case
8	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 distressed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 afraid	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 afraid	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 afraid	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 distressed	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 flowers	nmod:poss
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 think	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 think	aux
17	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 afraid	ccomp
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forgotten	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 forgotten	aux
20	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 think	ccomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 forgotten	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 consoled	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 consoled	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 consoled	nsubj
25	consoled	console	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 distressed	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 consoled	obj
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 reflection	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 reflection	det
29	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 consoled	obl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 friend	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Miller	det
32	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 friend	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 friend	cop
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friend	nmod:poss
35	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 friend	amod
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reflection	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 distressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	distress	past · passive		Little Hans	time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	is	past	Hans			afraid property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	would	Miller's flowers				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	forget	past · perfect	Miller	flowers = flower			tree rules
5	console	past	Miller	Miller		by the reflection	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer
6	is a	past	the Miller	Miller's best friend			tree rules

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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