The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 35
“Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted.
Who acts: Roman Candle · What happens: know, discuss, interrupt · To what, where: interesting subject, Roman Candle · 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 (Roman Candle), 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 knew | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 6 knew | advmod |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 discussing | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discussing | aux |
| 9 | discussing | discuss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 subject | det |
| 11 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 subject | amod |
| 12 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discussing | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 interrupted | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 interrupted | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 interrupted | aux:pass |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 interrupted | advmod |
| 17 | rudely | rudely | ADV | _ | 18 interrupted | advmod |
| 18 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 discussing | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | the Roman Candle = candle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | discuss speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | the Roman Candle = candle | some interesting subject | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | interrupt in a quote | past · passive | the Roman Candle = candle | rudely 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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