The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 39
“‘Dear little Hans,’ cried the Miller, ‘I am in great trouble.
Who acts: Dear little Hans, wind · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: Miller, great trouble
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 (Dear little Hans, wind), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 3 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hans | amod |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hans | amod |
| 5 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Hans | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Miller | det |
| 10 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 trouble | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 trouble | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 trouble | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 trouble | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 trouble | amod |
| 17 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Dear little Hans | the Miller | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | wind | great trouble | 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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