The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 48

“Let us put it into the fire!” said the other boy, “it will help to boil the kettle.”

Who acts: us, other boy, fact · What happens: let, put, say, help, boil · To what, where: us, fact, fire, kettle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, other boy, fact), 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	_	2 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 boy	amod
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 help	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 help	aux
19	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 boil	mark
21	boil	boil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 help	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 kettle	det
23	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 boil	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 help	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	let in a quote	infinitive		us		tree rules
2	put in a quote	infinitive	us not said here	fact	the fire	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
3	say speech: express	past	the other boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	help in a quote	future	fact			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	boil in a quote	to-infinitive	fact not said here	the kettle		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kettle=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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