The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 43

“‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, ‘I take it quite as a compliment your coming to me, and I will start off at once.

Who acts: wind, your · What happens: cry, take, come, start off · To what, where: little Hans, wheelbarrow, compliment, wind

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 (wind, your), 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 cried	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 Certainly	punct
3	Certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	’	'	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Hans	amod
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	obj
14	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 compliment	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 compliment	det
17	compliment	compliment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 coming	nsubj
19	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 compliment	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 coming	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 start	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 start	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 start	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 start	aux
26	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 take	conj
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 start	compound:prt
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 start	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past		little Hans		certainly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic
2	take in a quote	present	wind	wheelbarrow		as a compliment	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as compliment=Attribute
3	come in a quote	gerund	your	a compliment not said here	wind		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location compliment=Theme
4	start off in a quote	future	wind				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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