The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 154
“You are a very irritating person,” said the Rocket, “and very ill-bred.
Who acts: You, irritating person · What happens: be, say, breed · To what, where: irritating person, 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 (You, irritating person), 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 | _ | 7 person | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 person | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 person | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 person | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 irritating | advmod |
| 6 | irritating | irritating | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 person | amod |
| 7 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 person | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 person | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rocket | det |
| 12 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bred | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 bred | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bred | cc |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 ill | advmod |
| 17 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bred | advcl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ill | punct |
| 19 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a irritating person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a irritating person | the Rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic | ||||
| 3 | breed in a quote | participle | a irritating person not said here | tree rules |
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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