The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 2
“How very silly of him not to stay here!” said the Rocket.
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: not stay, say · 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 (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 | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 silly | advmod |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 silly | advmod |
| 4 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 silly | obl |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 stay | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 silly | conj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stay | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 silly | punct |
| 13 | said | say | 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 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay in a quote | to-infinitive | the Rocket not said here | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Rocket | 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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