The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 50

“This is magnificent,” cried the Rocket, “they are going to let me off in broad day-light, so that every one can see me.”

Who acts: This, Rocket, boys, one · What happens: be, cry, go, let off, see · To what, where: Rocket, broad day light · 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, Rocket, boys, one), 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 magnificent	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 magnificent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magnificent	cop
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 cried	parataxis
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 magnificent	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 magnificent	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rocket	det
9	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 going	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 going	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 going	aux
14	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cried	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 going	xcomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 light	case
20	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 light	amod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 light	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 day	punct
23	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 let	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
25	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 see	mark
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 so	fixed
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	nsubj
29	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	This			magnificent property	tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the Rocket				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	go in a quote	present · progressive	boys = boy				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	let off in a quote	to-infinitive	boys = boy not said here	the Rocket = rocket	broad day light		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	see in a quote	can	every one	the Rocket = rocket			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=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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