The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
I hate people who cry over spilt milk.
Who acts: I, people · What happens: hate, cry · To what, where: people, spilt milk
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 (I, people), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 hate | nsubj |
| 2 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hate | obj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 cry | nsubj |
| 5 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 people | acl:relcl |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 7 spilt | advmod |
| 7 | spilt | spilt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 milk | amod |
| 8 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cry | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | people | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | people | spilt milk | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Topic |
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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