The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 41
“This must be the deputation,” said the Rocket, and he tried to look very dignified.
Who acts: This, deputation, Rocket · What happens: be, say, try, look · To what, where: deputation, 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 (This, deputation, 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 deputation | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 deputation | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 deputation | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 deputation | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deputation | det |
| 6 | deputation | deputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deputation | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 deputation | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Rocket | det |
| 11 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tried | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tried | nsubj |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 look | mark |
| 17 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | xcomp |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 dignified | advmod |
| 19 | dignified | dignified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 look | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | This | the deputation | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the deputation | the Rocket | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | past | Rocket | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | Rocket not said here | dignified property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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