The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 79
“You are the rudest person I ever met,” said the Rocket, “and you cannot understand my friendship for the Prince.”
Who acts: You, Rocket · What happens: be, meet, say, not understand · To what, where: rudest person, friendship · 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 (You, Rocket), 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 person | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 person | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | rudest | rude | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 met | advmod |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 understand | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 understand | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 understand | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 understand | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 understand | advmod |
| 21 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | parataxis |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friendship | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friendship | friendship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Prince | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Prince | det |
| 26 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 understand | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 understand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | the rudest person | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | meet in a quote | past | the Rocket = rocket | the rudest person not said here | ever | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not understand in a quote | can | you | my friendship | for the Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer friendship=Stimulus |
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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