The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 34
“I am made for public life,” said the Rocket, “and so are all my relations, even the humblest of them.
Who acts: Rocket · What happens: make, say, be · To what, where: Rocket, relations · 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 made | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 life | amod |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Rocket | det |
| 12 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 relations | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 relations | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 relations | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 relations | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 relations | cop |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 relations | advmod |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 relations | nmod:poss |
| 20 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Rocket | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 humblest | punct |
| 22 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 humblest | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 humblest | det |
| 24 | humblest | humble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 relations | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 humblest | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · passive | the Rocket = rocket | for public life | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my relations | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | of relations = relation | 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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