The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 113

“This is evidently a deputation,” said the Rocket; “I will receive them with becoming dignity” so he put his nose in the air, and began to frown severely as if he were thinking about some very important subject.

Who acts: This, deputation · What happens: be, say, receive, become, put, begin · To what, where: deputation, Rocket, workmen, dignity, nose, air · 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 (This, deputation), 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 deputation	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 deputation	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deputation	cop
4	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	6 deputation	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 deputation	det
6	deputation	deputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deputation	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 deputation	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rocket	det
11	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 receive	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 receive	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 receive	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 receive	aux
16	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 receive	obj
18	with	with	SCONJ	_	19 becoming	mark
19	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 receive	advcl
20	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 becoming	xcomp
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 receive	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 put	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 put	nsubj
24	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nose	nmod:poss
26	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 frown	mark
34	frown	frown	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	severely	severely	ADV	_	34 frown	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	40 thinking	mark
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	40 thinking	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 thinking	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 thinking	aux
40	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 frown	advcl
41	about	about	ADP	_	45 subject	case
42	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	45 subject	det
43	very	very	ADV	_	44 important	advmod
44	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 subject	amod
45	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 thinking	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	a deputation		evidently property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a deputation	the Rocket			tree rules
3	receive in a quote	future	a deputation = deputation	workmen = workman			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	become in a quote	gerund	a deputation = deputation not said here	dignity			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	put	past	deputation	deputation's nose	the air		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nose=Theme in air=Destination
6	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	frown	to-infinitive				severely property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	think speech: other	past · progressive	deputation			about some important subject	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about subject=Topic

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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