The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 61

“‘A great loss to me at any rate,’ answered the Miller; ‘why, I had as good as given him my wheelbarrow, and now I really don’t know what to do with it.

Who acts: great loss, wind · What happens: answer, give, not know, do · To what, where: Miller, wheelbarrow, loss · 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 (great loss, wind), 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	_	13 answered	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	5 loss	punct
3	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 loss	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loss	amod
5	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 loss	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 rate	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 rate	det
10	rate	rate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loss	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 loss	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 loss	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Miller	det
15	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 why	punct
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	13 answered	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 good	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 good	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 good	aux
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 good	advmod
23	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	conj
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 given	mark
25	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 good	advcl
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 given	obj
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wheelbarrow	nmod:poss
28	wheelbarrow	wheelbarrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 given	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 know	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 know	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 know	advmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 know	nsubj
33	really	really	ADV	_	36 know	advmod
34	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 know	aux
35	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 know	advmod
36	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 good	conj
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 do	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 do	mark
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 know	ccomp
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 it	case
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert in a quote	past	a great loss to me at any rate		the Miller			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miller=Eventuality
2	give in a quote	participle	a great loss to me at any rate not said here	my wheelbarrow	loss			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme
3	not know in a quote	present · do-support	wind			now		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive					with wheelbarrow	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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