The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 121

“It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some fashionable watering-place, and they have sent me away to recruit my health.

Who acts: BAD, Rocket, doubt · What happens: not be, remark, be, send away, recruit · To what, where: fashionable watering place, poppies, health · 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 (BAD, Rocket, 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	_	5 comfortable	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 comfortable	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 comfortable	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 comfortable	advmod
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 remarked	advcl
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 comfortable	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comfortable	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 comfortable	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remarked	nsubj
10	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 place	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 place	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 doubt	det
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 place	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 place	cop
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 place	det
19	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 place	amod
20	watering	watering	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 place	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 watering	punct
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remarked	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sent	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sent	cc
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sent	nsubj:pass
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 remarked	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obj
29	away	away	ADV	_	27 sent	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 recruit	mark
31	recruit	recruit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sent	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 health	nmod:poss
33	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 recruit	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	BAD		here	comfortable property	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	past	Rocket				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	no doubt	some fashionable watering place			tree rules
4	send away in a quote	present · perfect · passive		poppies = poppy		away property	tree rules
5	recruit in a quote	to-infinitive		my health			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme

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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