The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 118

BAD Rocket?” he said, as he whirled through the air; “impossible!

Who acts: Rocket · What happens: say, whirl · To what, where: BAD Rocket, 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 (Rocket), 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	BAD	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Rocket	amod
2	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl:unmarked
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Rocket	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Rocket	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whirled	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 whirled	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 whirled	nsubj
10	whirled	whirl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	through	through	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 air	det
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 whirled	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 impossible	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 impossible	punct
16	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Rocket	BAD Rocket					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	whirl in a quote	past	Rocket			the air			vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Destination

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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