The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 60

“‘Little Hans is certainly a great loss to every one,’ said the Blacksmith, when the funeral was over, and they were all seated comfortably in the inn, drinking spiced wine and eating sweet cakes.

Who acts: Little Hans, great loss, funeral · What happens: be, say, seat, drink, spice, eat · To what, where: great loss, one, friends, inn, spiced wine, sweet cakes · 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 (Little Hans, great loss, funeral), 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	_	15 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 loss	punct
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Hans	amod
4	Hans	Hans	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 loss	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 loss	cop
6	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	9 loss	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 loss	det
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 loss	amod
9	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loss	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loss	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 loss	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Blacksmith	det
17	Blacksmith	Blacksmith	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 over	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 over	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 funeral	det
21	funeral	funeral	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 over	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 over	cop
23	over	over	ADV	_	17 Blacksmith	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seated	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seated	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seated	nsubj:pass
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seated	aux:pass
28	all	all	ADV	_	29 seated	advmod
29	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	conj
30	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	29 seated	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 inn	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 inn	det
33	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seated	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 drinking	punct
35	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 seated	advcl
36	spiced	spice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 wine	amod
37	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 drinking	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 eating	cc
39	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 drinking	conj
40	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 cakes	amod
41	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 eating	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	Little Hans	a great loss	every one		certainly property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	a great loss					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past	the funeral				over property	tree rules
4	seat in a quote	past · passive		friends = friend		the inn	all, comfortably property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in inn=Location
5	drink in a quote	gerund		spiced wine				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
6	spice in a quote	participle						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	eat in a quote	gerund		sweet cakes				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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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