The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 32

‘Besides,’ he used to say, ‘he is going to give me his wheelbarrow, and that is an act of pure generosity.’

Who acts: Miller, that · What happens: use, say, go, give, be · To what, where: wheelbarrow, me, act · 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, that), 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 used	punct
2	Besides	besides	INTJ	_	6 used	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 used	nsubj
6	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 say	mark
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 used	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 going	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 going	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 going	aux
13	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 say	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 going	xcomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wheelbarrow	nmod:poss
18	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 act	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 act	cc
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 act	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 act	cop
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 act	det
24	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 used	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 generosity	case
26	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 generosity	amod
27	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 act	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	use	past	Miller				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Miller not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go	present · progressive	Miller				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	to-infinitive	Miller not said here	Miller's wheelbarrow	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme
5	is a	present	that	a act		of pure generosity	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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