The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 86

They never hit me, of course; we swallows fly far too well for that, and besides, I come of a family famous for its agility; but still, it was a mark of disrespect.”

Who acts: stones, we, I, agility · What happens: not hit, fly, come, be · To what, where: me, mark

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stones, we, I, agility), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 hit	advmod
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 course	punct
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 course	case
7	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 fly	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 fly	nsubj
10	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 we	appos
11	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hit	parataxis
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 fly	advmod
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 well	advmod
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 far	fixed
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 that	case
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 fly	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 come	cc
19	besides	besides	INTJ	_	22 come	discourse
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 besides	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 come	nsubj
22	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fly	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 family	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 family	det
25	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	obl
26	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 family	amod
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 agility	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 agility	nmod:poss
29	agility	agility	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 famous	obl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 mark	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 mark	cc
32	still	still	ADV	_	37 mark	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 still	punct
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 mark	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 mark	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 mark	det
37	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 disrespect	case
39	disrespect	disrespect	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 mark	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 hit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not hit	past	stones = stone	me		of course	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme of course=Initial_Location
2	fly	present	we			for that; far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present	I			of a family	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of family=Initial_Location
4	is a	past	agility	a mark	still	of disrespect	tree rules

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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