The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 52
“’What do you want, little Hans?’
Who acts: you · What happens: want · To what, where: little Hans
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 (you), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 3 What | case |
| 3 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 want | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 want | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Hans | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Hans | amod |
| 9 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 want | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | little Hans | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme hans=Attribute |
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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