The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 58
“Everybody went to little Hans’ funeral, as he was so popular, and the Miller was the chief mourner.
Who acts: Everybody, body, Miller · What happens: go, be · To what, where: funeral, chief mourner
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 (Everybody, body, Miller), 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 | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 2 | Everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Hans | case |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Hans | amod |
| 6 | Hans | Han | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 Hans | case |
| 8 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 popular | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 popular | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 popular | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 popular | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 popular | advmod |
| 14 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mourner | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mourner | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Miller | det |
| 18 | Miller | Miller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 mourner | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 mourner | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mourner | det |
| 21 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 mourner | amod |
| 22 | mourner | mourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | past | Everybody | little Hans's funeral | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location funeral=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | past | body | popular property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | the Miller | the chief mourner | tree rules |
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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