The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 25

“I am merely a visitor, a distinguished visitor.

Who acts: Rocket · What happens: be · To what, where: visitor

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	_	6 visitor	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 visitor	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 visitor	cop
4	merely	merely	ADV	_	6 visitor	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 visitor	det
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 visitor	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 visitor	det
9	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 visitor	amod
10	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visitor	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 visitor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the Rocket = rocket	a visitor and a distinguished visitor				merely property	tree rules

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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