The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 33
“I was saying,” continued the Rocket, “I was saying—What was I saying?”
Who acts: Rocket, saying · What happens: say, continue, be · To what, where: Rocket · 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, saying), 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 | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saying | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saying | aux |
| 4 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | csubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 saying | punct |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rocket | det |
| 9 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 saying | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saying | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saying | aux |
| 14 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | advcl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 saying | obj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | cop |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 saying | nsubj |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | advcl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · progressive | the Rocket = rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | continue | past | saying | the Rocket | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past · progressive | the Rocket = rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | the Rocket = rocket | say property | 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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