The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 18

“How fortunate it is for the King’s son,” he remarked, “that he is to be married on the very day on which I am to be let off.

Who acts: manner, dead · What happens: be, remark, marry, let off · To what, where: dead · 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 (manner, dead), 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	_	10 son	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 fortunate	advmod
3	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 son	amod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 son	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 son	cop
6	for	for	ADP	_	10 son	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 King	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remarked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 son	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remarked	nsubj
14	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 married	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 married	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 married	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 married	nsubj:pass
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 married	aux:pass
20	to	to	PART	_	22 married	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 married	aux:pass
22	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 remarked	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 day	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 day	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 day	advmod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 married	obl
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 which	case
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 let	obl
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 let	nsubj:pass
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 let	aux:pass
31	to	to	PART	_	33 let	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 let	aux:pass
33	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 day	acl:relcl
34	off	off	ADP	_	33 let	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 remarked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	manner			for the King's fortunate son	tree rules
2	remark speech: assert	past	dead				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	marry in a quote	present · passive		dead	day		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	let off in a quote	present · passive		dead	on the day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: subject=Theme on which=Asset

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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