The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 162
“Well, that is his loss, not mine,” answered the Rocket.
Who acts: that, loss · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: loss, 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 (that, loss), 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 loss | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 loss | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 loss | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loss | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod:poss |
| 7 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 mine | advmod |
| 10 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 loss | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mine | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 loss | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Rocket | det |
| 15 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | Court's loss | mine nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Court's loss | the Rocket | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rocket=Eventuality |
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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