The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 54

“Now I am going off!” he cried, and he made himself very stiff and straight.

Who acts: Rocket · What happens: go off, cry, make · To what, where: 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), 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	_	5 going	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 going	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 cried	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 going	compound:prt
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cried	nsubj
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	conj
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 made	obj
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 stiff	advmod
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 straight	cc
19	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stiff	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go off in a quote	present · progressive	Rocket		now		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Rocket				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	make	past	Rocket	Rocket		stiff property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product

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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