The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 111

“I suppose they are reserving me for some grand occasion,” said the Rocket; “no doubt that is what it means,” and he looked more supercilious than ever.

Who acts: Rocket, fireworks, doubt · What happens: suppose, reserve, say, be, mean, look · To what, where: Rocket · 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 (Rocket, fireworks, doubt), 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	_	6 reserving	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 suppose	nsubj
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reserving	parataxis
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 reserving	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reserving	aux
6	reserving	reserve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 reserving	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 occasion	case
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 occasion	det
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 occasion	amod
11	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reserving	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reserving	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reserving	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Rocket	det
16	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 doubt	det
20	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	nsubj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 what	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 what	cop
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 means	obj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 means	nsubj
25	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 means	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 looked	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 looked	nsubj
30	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 said	conj
31	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 supercilious	advmod
32	supercilious	supercilious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 looked	xcomp
33	than	than	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	32 supercilious	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose in a quote	present	the Rocket = rocket			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	reserve in a quote	present · progressive	fireworks = firework	the Rocket = rocket	for some grand occasion	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent i=Theme for occasion=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert	past	the Rocket			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	no doubt			tree rules
5	mean in a quote	present	doubt			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	look	past	Rocket		supercilious property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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