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The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 59

“‘As I was his best friend,’ said the Miller, ‘it is only fair that I should have the best place’; so he walked at the head of the procession in a long black cloak, and every now and then he wiped his eyes with a big pocket-handkerchief.

Who acts: best friend, it, Miller · What happens: be, say, have, walk, wipe · To what, where: best friend, best place, every, head, eyes · 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 (best friend, it, 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

punctpunctmarknsubjcopnmod:possamodnsubjpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopadvmodccompmarknsubjauxcsubjdetamodobjpunctpunctadvmodnsubjconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasedetamodamodoblpunctccobladvmodccadvmodnsubjconjnmod:possobjcasedetamodcompoundpunctoblpunctroot“PUNCT‘PUNCTAsSCONJIPRONwasAUXhisPRONbestADJfriendNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETMillerPROPN,PUNCT‘PUNCTitPRONisAUXonlyADVfairADJthatSCONJIPRONshouldAUXhaveVERBtheDETbestADJplaceNOUN’PUNCT;PUNCTsoADVhePRONwalkedVERBatADPtheDETheadNOUNofADPtheDETprocessionNOUNinADPaDETlongADJblackADJcloakNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJeveryDETnowADVandCCONJthenADVhePRONwipedVERBhisPRONeyesNOUNwithADPaDETbigADJpocketNOUN-PUNCThandkerchiefNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_11 saidpunct
2‘'PUNCT_8 friendpunct
3AsasSCONJ_8 friendmark
4IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 friendnsubj
5wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 friendcop
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 friendnmod:poss
7bestgoodADJDegree=Sup8 friendamod
8friendfriendNOUNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
9,,PUNCT_8 friendpunct
10’'PUNCT_8 friendpunct
11saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 Millerdet
13MillerMillerPROPNNumber=Sing11 saidnsubj
14,,PUNCT_19 fairpunct
15‘'PUNCT_19 fairpunct
16ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 fairnsubj
17isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 faircop
18onlyonlyADV_19 fairadvmod
19fairfairADJDegree=Pos11 saidccomp
20thatthatSCONJ_23 havemark
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs23 havensubj
22shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin23 haveaux
23havehaveVERBVerbForm=Inf19 faircsubj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 placedet
25bestgoodADJDegree=Sup26 placeamod
26placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing23 haveobj
27’'PUNCT_26 placepunct
28;;PUNCT_31 walkedpunct
29sosoADV_31 walkedadvmod
30hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs31 walkednsubj
31walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 saidconj
32atatADP_34 headcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 headdet
34headheadNOUNNumber=Sing31 walkedobl
35ofofADP_37 processioncase
36thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art37 processiondet
37processionprocessionNOUNNumber=Sing34 headnmod
38ininADP_42 cloakcase
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 cloakdet
40longlongADJDegree=Pos42 cloakamod
41blackblackADJDegree=Pos42 cloakamod
42cloakcloakNOUNNumber=Sing31 walkedobl
43,,PUNCT_45 everypunct
44andandCCONJ_45 everycc
45everyeveryDETPronType=Tot31 walkedobl
46nownowADVPronType=Dem45 everyadvmod
47andandCCONJ_50 wipedcc
48thenthenADVPronType=Dem50 wipedadvmod
49hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs50 wipednsubj
50wipedwipeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin46 nowconj
51hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs52 eyesnmod:poss
52eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur50 wipedobj
53withwithADP_58 handkerchiefcase
54aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art58 handkerchiefdet
55bigbigADJDegree=Pos58 handkerchiefamod
56pocketpocketNOUNNumber=Sing58 handkerchiefcompound
57--PUNCT_56 pocketpunct
58handkerchiefhandkerchiefNOUNNumber=Sing50 wipedobl
59..PUNCT_11 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is a in a quotepastbody's best friend = friendbody's best friendtree rules
2say speech: assert in a quotepastbody's best friendvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3is in a quotepresentitfair propertytree rules
4have in a quoteshouldbody's best friend = friendthe best placevn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
5walk in a quotepastMillereverythe head of the processionin a long black cloakvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory
6wipe in a quotepastMillerMiller's eyesthenwith a big pocket handkerchiefvn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source

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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