The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 43

I wonder how it came here”; and he picked the rocket out of the ditch.

Who acts: I, stick, Hallo · What happens: wonder, come, pick · To what, where: rocket, ditch · 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 (I, stick, Hallo), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wonder	nsubj
2	wonder	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 came	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	ccomp
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 picked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 picked	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 picked	nsubj
11	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wonder	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rocket	det
13	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obj
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 ditch	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 ditch	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ditch	det
17	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 picked	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wonder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	present	I			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	come	past	stick		here	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pick in a quote	past	Hallo	the rocket	the ditch	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Patient

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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