The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 32

“Well, I said Pylotechnic,” answered the Rocket, in a severe tone of voice, and the Bengal Light felt so crushed that he began at once to bully the little squibs, in order to show that he was still a person of some importance.

Who acts: Rocket, Bengal Light, Pylotechnic · What happens: say, answer, feel, crush, begin, bully · To what, where: severe tone, little squibs, person, voice · 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 (Rocket, Bengal Light, Pylotechnic), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Pylotechnic	Pylotechnic	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Pylotechnic	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 Pylotechnic	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rocket	det
11	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tone	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 tone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tone	det
15	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 tone	amod
16	tone	tone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 voice	case
18	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tone	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Light	det
22	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Light	compound
23	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 crushed	advmod
26	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 felt	xcomp
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 began	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 began	nsubj
29	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	advcl
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 began	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 bully	mark
33	bully	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 began	xcomp
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 squibs	det
35	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 squibs	amod
36	squibs	squib	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 bully	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 show	punct
38	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	41 show	mark
39	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 in	fixed
40	to	to	PART	_	41 show	mark
41	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 bully	conj
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 person	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 person	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 person	cop
45	still	still	ADV	_	47 person	advmod
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 person	det
47	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 show	ccomp
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 importance	case
49	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	50 importance	det
50	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 person	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Rocket = rocket					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Rocket		a severe tone of voice			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	feel	past	the Bengal Light					vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	crush	participle	the Bengal Light not said here					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	begin	past	Pylotechnic					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	bully	to-infinitive	Pylotechnic not said here	the little squibs				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squib=Beneficiary
7	show	to-infinitive	Pylotechnic not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	Pylotechnic	a person		still	of some importance	tree rules
9	intonate			voice				nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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