The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
“‘Well, never mind, I will do without it,’ cried little Hans, and he took down his great fur coat, and his warm scarlet cap, and tied a muffler round his throat, and started off.
Who acts: I, sorry · What happens: not mind, do, cry, take down, tie, start off · To what, where: little Hans, great fur coat, muffler · 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 (I, sorry), 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 | _ | 15 cried | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 mind | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 mind | advmod |
| 6 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 mind | ccomp |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 mind | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hans | amod |
| 17 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 15 cried | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 took | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 took | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 took | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 coat | nmod:poss |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 coat | amod |
| 25 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coat | compound |
| 26 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cap | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cap | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 cap | nmod:poss |
| 30 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cap | amod |
| 31 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cap | compound |
| 32 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 tied | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 tied | cc |
| 35 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 muffler | det |
| 37 | muffler | muffler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tied | obj |
| 38 | round | round | ADP | _ | 40 throat | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 throat | nmod:poss |
| 40 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tied | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 started | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 started | cc |
| 43 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 44 | off | off | ADP | _ | 43 started | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mind in a quote | infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | future | I | without lantern | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | little Hans | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take down in a quote | past | sorry | sorry's great fur coat | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tie in a quote | past | a muffler | round sorry's throat | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muffler=Patient | ||||
| 6 | start off in a quote | past | 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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