The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 17
“My good creature,” cried the Rocket in a very haughty tone of voice, “I see that you belong to the lower orders.
Who acts: good creature, you · What happens: cry, see, belong, intonate · To what, where: Rocket, haughty tone, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good creature, you), 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 creature | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 creature | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 creature | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 creature | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Rocket | det |
| 9 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tone | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 haughty | advmod |
| 13 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tone | amod |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tone | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | conj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 belong | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 belong | nsubj |
| 23 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 orders | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 orders | det |
| 26 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 orders | amod |
| 27 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 belong | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | My good creature | the Rocket | a haughty tone of voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | My good creature = creature | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | you | to the lower orders | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | intonate | voice | nom tone «communication 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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