The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 130

“Ahem! ahem!” said the Rocket, and he began to cough.

Who acts: Ahem, Rocket · What happens: say, begin, cough · 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 (Ahem, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
2	Ahem	ahem	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
4	ahem	ahem	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ahem	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ahem	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rocket	det
9	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cough	mark
15	cough	cough	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ahem and ahem	the Rocket	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic
2	begin	past	Rocket		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	cough	to-infinitive	Rocket not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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