The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 73
“I never said that they had,” replied the Rocket; “I said that they might.
Who acts: Rocket, people, Roman Candle · What happens: not say, have, reply, say · 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, people, 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 | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rocket | det |
| 12 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 might | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 might | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not 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 | have in a quote | past | people | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Rocket | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the Roman Candle = candle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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