The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 31

“Pyrotechnic, Pyrotechnic, you mean,” said a Bengal Light; “I know it is Pyrotechnic, for I saw it written on my own canister.”

Who acts: Pyrotechnic, Bengal Light, Light · What happens: mean, say, know, be, see, write · To what, where: Pyrotechnic, Light, own canister · 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 (Pyrotechnic, Bengal Light, Light), 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 said	punct
2	Pyrotechnic	Pyrotechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mean	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Pyrotechnic	punct
4	Pyrotechnic	Pyrotechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Pyrotechnic	flat
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 mean	nsubj
7	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 mean	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Light	det
12	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Light	compound
13	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 Pyrotechnic	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Pyrotechnic	cop
20	Pyrotechnic	Pyrotechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 know	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saw	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 saw	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 know	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 saw	obj
26	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 saw	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	30 canister	case
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 canister	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 canister	amod
30	canister	canister	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 written	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present	Pyrotechnic			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	a Bengal Light			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know in a quote	present	a Bengal Light = light			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a in a quote	present	Light	Pyrotechnic		tree rules
5	see in a quote	past	a Bengal Light = light	Light		tree rules
6	write in a quote	participle	Light not said here		my own canister	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on canister=Destination

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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