The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 65

“Ah! what a trivial view of life!” said the Rocket; “but it is only what I expected.

Who acts: view, I · What happens: say, be, expect, view · To what, where: Rocket, life · 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 (view, I), 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 what	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	nsubj:outer
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 view	det
6	trivial	trivial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 view	amod
7	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 what	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 life	case
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 view	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Rocket	det
14	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 what	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 what	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 what	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 what	cop
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 what	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	parataxis
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 expected	nsubj
23	expected	expect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 what	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the Rocket	tree rules
2	is a in a quote	present	view		tree rules
3	expect in a quote	past	I		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	view in a quote			life	nom view «cognition 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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