The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 39

“Come back! come back!” screamed the Rocket, “I have a great deal to say to you”; but the Duck paid no attention to him.

Who acts: Rocket, Duck · What happens: come back, scream, have, say, pay · To what, where: great deal, you, attention, Rocket · 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, Duck), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 screamed	ccomp
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Rocket	det
11	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 screamed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 screamed	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 deal	det
17	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 deal	amod
18	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 deal	acl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	obl
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 paid	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 paid	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Duck	det
27	Duck	Duck	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 paid	nsubj
28	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 screamed	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 attention	det
30	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 paid	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 paid	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 screamed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come back in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	scream speech: express	past	the Rocket			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have in a quote	present	the Rocket = rocket	a great deal		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	to-infinitive	the Rocket = rocket not said here	a great deal not said here	you	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
6	pay	past	the Duck	no attention	Rocket	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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