The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 26
My father was a Rocket like myself, and of French extraction.
Who acts: father · What happens: be · To what, where: Rocket
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 (father), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rocket | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rocket | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Rocket | det |
| 5 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 myself | case |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 Rocket | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 extraction | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 extraction | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 extraction | case |
| 11 | French | French | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 extraction | amod |
| 12 | extraction | extraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rocket | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rocket | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | My father | a Rocket and French extraction | like myself | 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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