The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 88

But the Roman Candle and the Bengal Light were quite indignant, and kept saying, “Humbug! humbug!” at the top of their voices.

Who acts: Roman Candle · What happens: be, keep, say · To what, where: Humbug, top · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 indignant	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Candle	det
3	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Candle	amod
4	Candle	Candle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 indignant	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 Light	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Light	det
7	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Light	compound
8	Light	Light	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Candle	conj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 indignant	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 indignant	advmod
11	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 indignant	conj
15	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 kept	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Humbug	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Humbug	punct
18	Humbug	humbug	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 humbug	punct
20	humbug	humbug	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Humbug	conj
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 humbug	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 Humbug	punct
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 top	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 top	det
25	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saying	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 voices	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 voices	nmod:poss
28	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 top	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 indignant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Roman Candle and the Bengal Light			indignant property	tree rules
2	keep	past	the Roman Candle and the Bengal Light not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the Roman Candle and the Bengal Light not said here	Humbug and humbug	the top of Humbug's voices		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent humbug=Topic

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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