The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 63
“Now I am going to explode,” he cried.
Who acts: fire · What happens: go, explode, cry · 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 (fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg902:719): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
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 | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 explode | mark |
| 7 | explode | explode | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | fire | now | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | explode in a quote | to-infinitive | fire not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | fire | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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