The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 45
“‘I am very sorry,’ answered the Miller, ‘but it is my new lantern, and it would be a great loss to me if anything happened to it.’
Who acts: wind, sorry, lantern, anything · What happens: be, answer, happen · To what, where: Miller, new lantern, great loss, wind, lantern
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, sorry, lantern, anything), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 sorry | advmod |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sorry | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Miller | det |
| 11 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lantern | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 lantern | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lantern | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lantern | cop |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 lantern | nmod:poss |
| 18 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lantern | amod |
| 19 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 loss | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 loss | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 loss | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 loss | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 loss | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 loss | det |
| 26 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 loss | amod |
| 27 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lantern | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 me | case |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 loss | nmod |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 happened | mark |
| 31 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 32 happened | nsubj |
| 32 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 loss | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 happened | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 lantern | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 lantern | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | wind | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | sorry | the Miller | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miller=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | lantern | my new lantern and a great loss | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | would | lantern | a great loss | wind | tree rules | |||
| 5 | happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | anything | lantern | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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