The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 116

“Hallo!” he cried, “what a bad rocket!” and he threw him over the wall into the ditch.

Who acts: deputation · What happens: cry, rocket, throw · To what, where: Hallo, Rocket, wall · 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 (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	_	2 Hallo	punct
2	Hallo	hallo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hallo	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hallo	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rocket	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 rocket	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 rocket	nsubj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 rocket	det
11	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 rocket	amod
12	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 rocket	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 rocket	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 threw	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	nsubj
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 threw	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 ditch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ditch	det
24	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	deputation	Hallo			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rocket in a quote						tree rules
3	throw	past	deputation	Rocket	the wall	into the ditch result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into ditch=Result

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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