The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 74
“I knew I should create a great sensation,” gasped the Rocket, and he went out.
Who acts: Good heavens, Rocket · What happens: know, create, gasp, go out · To what, where: great sensation, 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 (Good heavens, 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 | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 create | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 create | aux |
| 6 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sensation | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sensation | amod |
| 9 | sensation | sensation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 create | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasped | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasped | punct |
| 12 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Rocket | det |
| 14 | Rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gasped | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gasped | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 went | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | past | Good heavens = heaven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | create in a quote | should | Good heavens = heaven | a great sensation | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Result | ||||
| 3 | gasp | past | the Rocket | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go out | past | Rocket | vn interact-36.6 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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