The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
“‘The Miller’s son has fallen from a ladder, and has hurt himself, and the Miller wants you to come at once.’
Who acts: son, Miller, you · What happens: fall, hurt, want, come · To what, where: ladder, son, you
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 (son, Miller, 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 | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Miller | det |
| 4 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Miller | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fallen | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | aux |
| 8 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 ladder | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ladder | det |
| 11 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fallen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hurt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hurt | cc |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hurt | aux |
| 15 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 fallen | conj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 hurt | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wants | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wants | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Miller | det |
| 20 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wants | nsubj |
| 21 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 fallen | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 wants | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 come | mark |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wants | xcomp |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 once | case |
| 26 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 come | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | present · perfect | the Miller's son | a ladder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ladder=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | hurt in a quote | present · perfect | the Miller's son not said here | son | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | want in a quote | present | the Miller | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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