The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 86

“Very important for you, I have no doubt,” answered the Rocket, “but I shall weep if I choose”; and he actually burst into real tears, which flowed down his stick like rain-drops, and nearly drowned two little beetles, who were just thinking of setting up house together, and were looking for a nice dry spot to live in.

Who acts: Rocket, two little beetles · What happens: have, answer, weep, choose, burst, flow down · To what, where: doubt, Rocket, real tears, stick, two little beetles, house · 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, two little beetles), 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 important	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 important	advmod
3	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 answered	ccomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 important	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 important	parataxis
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 doubt	det
10	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 important	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 important	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Rocket	det
15	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weep	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 weep	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 weep	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 weep	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 weep	aux
21	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Rocket	acl:relcl
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 choose	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 choose	nsubj
24	choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 weep	advcl
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 choose	punct
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 burst	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 burst	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 burst	nsubj
29	actually	actually	ADV	_	30 burst	advmod
30	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	parataxis
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 tears	case
32	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 tears	amod
33	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 burst	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 flowed	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 flowed	nsubj
36	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 burst	conj
37	down	down	ADP	_	36 flowed	compound:prt
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stick	nmod:poss
39	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 flowed	obj
40	like	like	ADP	_	43 drops	case
41	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 drops	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 rain	punct
43	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 flowed	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 drowned	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 drowned	cc
46	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	47 drowned	advmod
47	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 burst	conj
48	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	50 beetles	nummod
49	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 beetles	amod
50	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 drowned	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 thinking	punct
52	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	55 thinking	nsubj
53	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 thinking	aux
54	just	just	ADV	_	55 thinking	advmod
55	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 beetles	conj
56	of	of	SCONJ	_	57 setting	mark
57	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	55 thinking	advcl
58	up	up	ADP	_	57 setting	compound:prt
59	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 setting	obj
60	together	together	ADV	_	57 setting	advmod
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 looking	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 looking	cc
63	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 looking	aux
64	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 drowned	advcl
65	for	for	ADP	_	69 spot	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	69 spot	det
67	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 spot	amod
68	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	69 spot	amod
69	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 looking	obl
70	to	to	PART	_	71 live	mark
71	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	64 looking	advcl
72	in	in	ADP	_	71 live	obl
73	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the Rocket = rocket	no doubt			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doubt=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	the Rocket				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	weep in a quote	shall	the Rocket = rocket	the Rocket not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rocket=Theme
4	choose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	the Rocket = rocket				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	burst	past	Rocket		real tears	actually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	flow down	past		Rocket's stick		like rain drops	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stick=Theme
7	drown	past	Rocket not said here	two little beetles		nearly property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beetle=Patient
8	think speech: other	past · progressive	two little beetles				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	set up	gerund	two little beetles not said here	house		together property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result
10	look	past · progressive	Rocket not said here			for a nice dry spot	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for spot=Theme
11	live in	to-infinitive	Rocket not said here				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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