The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
“So little Hans worked away for the Miller, and the Miller said all kinds of beautiful things about friendship, which Hans took down in a note-book, and used to read over at night, for he was a very good scholar.
Who acts: little Hans, Miller, beautiful things · What happens: work away, say, take down, use, read over, be · To what, where: kinds, note book · 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 (little Hans, Miller, beautiful things), 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 | _ | 5 worked | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 little | advmod |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Hans | amod |
| 4 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worked | nsubj |
| 5 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 worked | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Miller | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Miller | det |
| 9 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 worked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Miller | det |
| 13 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 worked | conj |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 kinds | det |
| 16 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 things | amod |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 kinds | nmod |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 friendship | case |
| 21 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 things | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 took | nsubj |
| 24 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 took | compound:prt |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 book | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 book | det |
| 29 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 book | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 note | punct |
| 31 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 used | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 used | cc |
| 34 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 worked | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 read | mark |
| 36 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 used | advcl |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 36 read | compound:prt |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 night | case |
| 39 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 scholar | punct |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 scholar | case |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 scholar | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 scholar | cop |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 scholar | det |
| 45 | very | very | ADV | _ | 46 good | advmod |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 scholar | amod |
| 47 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 read | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work away in a quote | past | little Hans | for the Miller; away property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for miller=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Miller | all kinds of beautiful things about friendship | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kind=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take down in a quote | past | beautiful things about friendship | a note book | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in book=Destination | ||||
| 4 | use in a quote | participle | little Hans not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | read over in a quote | to-infinitive | little Hans not said here | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | Miller | for a good scholar | 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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