The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 35

“Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,” said the Student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it.

Who acts: you, Student, street, cart wheel, my · What happens: be, say, throw, fall, go, word · To what, where: rose, street, gutter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Student, street, cart wheel), 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	_	11 ungrateful	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	11 ungrateful	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 word	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 word	nmod:poss
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ungrateful	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 ungrateful	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ungrateful	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 ungrateful	advmod
11	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ungrateful	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 ungrateful	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Student	det
16	Student	Student	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
17	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	16 Student	advmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 threw	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	nsubj
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rose	det
23	rose	rose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 street	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 street	det
26	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fell	punct
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 fell	advmod
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 threw	conj
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 gutter	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gutter	det
33	gutter	gutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fell	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 went	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 went	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 wheel	det
37	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wheel	compound
38	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 cart	punct
39	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 went	nsubj
40	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 threw	conj
41	over	over	ADP	_	42 it	case
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 went	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	you			upon my word; ungrateful property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Student				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	throw	past	Student	the rose		into the street result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer rose=Theme into street=Result
4	fall	past	street			into the gutter result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into gutter=Result
5	go	past	a cart wheel		street		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location
6	word in a quote		my				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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