The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 108

All his poor relations, to whom he would never speak, except with a sneer, shot up into the sky like wonderful golden flowers with blossoms of fire.

Who acts: Bang · What happens: not speak, shot up · To what, where: sky · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bang), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 relations	det:predet
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 relations	nmod:poss
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 relations	amod
4	relations	relation	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speak	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 speak	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speak	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 speak	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 speak	advmod
11	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 relations	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sneer	punct
13	except	except	ADP	_	16 sneer	case
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sneer	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sneer	det
16	sneer	sneer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 speak	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 shot	punct
18	shot	shot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 speak	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 shot	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shot	obl
23	like	like	ADP	_	26 flowers	case
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flowers	amod
25	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 flowers	amod
26	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sky	nmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 blossoms	case
28	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flowers	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 fire	case
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 blossoms	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 relations	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not speak speech: other	would	Bang					to Bang's poor relations	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to whom=Co-Agent
2	shot up	infinitive	Bang not said here			the sky like wonderful golden flowers with blossoms of fire			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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