--- title: “Well, I said Pylotechnic,” answered the Rocket, in a severe tone of… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, I said Pylotechnic,” answered the Rocket, in a severe tone of voice, and the Bengal Light felt so crushed that he began at once to bully the little squibs, in order to show that he was still a person of some importance. Who acts: Rocket, Bengal Light, Pylotechnic. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rocket, Bengal Light, Pylotechnic), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:6:32 # text = “Well, I said Pylotechnic,” answered the Rocket, in a severe tone of voice, and the Bengal Light felt so crushed that he began at once to bully the little squibs, in order to show that he was still a person of some importance. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 Pylotechnic Pylotechnic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Rocket rocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 severe severe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 Light Light PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 crushed crush VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 xcomp _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 bully bully VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 squibs squib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 41 mark _ _ 39 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 fixed _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 42 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 45 still still ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ _ 46 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 person person NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 ccomp _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 50 det _ _ 50 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Rocket *= rocket* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Rocket | | | a severe tone of voice | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **feel** | past | the Bengal Light | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **crush** | participle | the Bengal Light *not said here* | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **begin** | past | Pylotechnic | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **bully** | to-infinitive | Pylotechnic *not said here* | the little squibs | | | | | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squib=Beneficiary | | 7 | **show** | to-infinitive | Pylotechnic *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | past | Pylotechnic | a person | | | still | of some importance | tree rules | | 9 | **intonate** | | | voice | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/)