The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
“Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable.
Who acts: Common sense, you · What happens: say, forget, 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 (Common sense, you), 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 | _ | 3 sense | punct |
| 2 | Common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sense | amod |
| 3 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 indeed | punct |
| 5 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 sense | advmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sense | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sense | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Rocket | det |
| 10 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 forget | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 forget | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 forget | nsubj |
| 15 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 uncommon | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 uncommon | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 uncommon | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 uncommon | advmod |
| 20 | uncommon | uncommon | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 forget | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remarkable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remarkable | cc |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 remarkable | advmod |
| 24 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 uncommon | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Common sense | the Rocket | indignantly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic | |||
| 2 | forget in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Common sense = sense | uncommon property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | Common sense = sense not said here | 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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