The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 136

In fact, it was only yesterday that I heard the farmer’s wife say to her mother that she could not get a wink of sleep at night on account of us.

Who acts: moon, I, wife · What happens: be, hear, say, not get, account · To what, where: yesterday, fact, mother, wink, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon, I, wife), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 fact	case
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 yesterday	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fact	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 yesterday	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yesterday	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 yesterday	advmod
7	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 heard	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 yesterday	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 farmer	det
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 farmer	case
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 mother	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 say	obl
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 get	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 get	advmod
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 mother	acl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 wink	det
25	wink	wink	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 sleep	case
27	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wink	nmod
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 night	case
29	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 account	case
31	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 night	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 us	case
33	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 account	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 yesterday	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	moon	yesterday		fact		tree rules
2	hear	past	I	yesterday				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	the farmer's wife		wife's mother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
4	not get	could	wife	a wink of sleep			night	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wink=Stimulus
5	account			us				nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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