The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 20

“Dear me!” said the little Squib, “I thought it was quite the other way, and that we were to be let off in the Prince’s honour.”

Who acts: me, I, Squib, Prince · What happens: say, think, be, let off, honour · To what, where: other way, we, honour · 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 (me, I, Squib, Prince), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Squib	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Squib	amod
9	Squib	Squib	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 way	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 way	cop
16	quite	quite	DET	PronType=Ind	19 way	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 let	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj:pass
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux:pass
25	to	to	PART	_	27 let	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	aux:pass
27	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 way	conj
28	off	off	ADP	_	27 let	compound:prt
29	in	in	ADP	_	33 honour	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Prince	det
31	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 honour	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 Prince	case
33	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 let	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	me			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other in a quote	past	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	past	Squib	quite other way		tree rules
4	let off in a quote	past · passive		we	the Prince's honour	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	honour in a quote		the Prince			nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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