The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 78

However, I can say it now”; so he shouted out “Pooh” at the top of his voice, gave a whisk with his tail, and went back into his hole.

Who acts: I, rat · What happens: say, shout out, give, go back · To what, where: fact, Pooh, top, whisk, hole · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, rat), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 say	advmod
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 shouted	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 shouted	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 shouted	nsubj
12	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 shouted	compound:prt
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Pooh	punct
15	Pooh	Pooh	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 shouted	obj
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Pooh	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 top	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 top	det
19	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 shouted	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 voice	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 top	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 shouted	conj
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 whisk	det
26	whisk	whisk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gave	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 tail	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 whisk	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 gave	conj
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 hole	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hole	nmod:poss
36	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	can	I	fact		now	however property	tree rules
2	shout out speech: express in a quote	past	rat	Pooh	the top of rat's voice			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pooh=Topic
3	give in a quote	past	rat not said here	a whisk			with rat's tail	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whisk=Theme
4	go back in a quote	past	rat not said here		rat's hole			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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