The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 54

“‘All right!’ said the Doctor; and he ordered his horse, and his big boots, and his lantern, and came downstairs, and rode off in the direction of the Miller’s house, little Hans trudging behind him.

Who acts: Miller, little Hans · What happens: say, order, come, ride off, trudge · To what, where: Doctor, big boots, horse, direction · 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 (Miller, little Hans), 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	_	7 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
3	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 right	det
4	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 right	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Doctor	det
9	Doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ordered	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ordered	nsubj
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 horse	nmod:poss
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 boots	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 boots	cc
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 boots	nmod:poss
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boots	amod
20	boots	boot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ordered	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lantern	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lantern	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lantern	nmod:poss
24	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
28	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rode	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rode	cc
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 came	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 rode	compound:prt
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 direction	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 direction	det
35	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rode	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 house	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Miller	det
38	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 house	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 Miller	case
40	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 direction	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 Hans	punct
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 Hans	amod
43	Hans	Han	PROPN	Number=Plur	35 direction	nmod
44	trudging	trudge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	43 Hans	acl
45	behind	behind	ADP	_	46 him	case
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 trudging	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past		the Doctor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent doctor=Topic
2	order in a quote	past	Miller	Miller's big boots	Miller's horse			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
3	come in a quote	past					downstairs property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride off in a quote	past				the direction of the Miller's house little Hans		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	trudge in a quote	gerund	little Hans not said here				behind Miller	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory

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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