The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 101

I will put that poor little boy on the top of the tree, and then I will knock down the wall, and my garden shall be the children’s playground for ever and ever.”

Who acts: I, that, garden · What happens: put, boy, knock down, be · To what, where: top, wall, playground

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that, garden), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 put	aux
3	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 boy	nsubj
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	ccomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 tree	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 knock	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 knock	cc
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 knock	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 knock	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 knock	aux
19	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 put	conj
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 knock	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wall	det
22	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 knock	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 playground	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 playground	cc
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 garden	nmod:poss
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 playground	nsubj
27	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 playground	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 playground	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 children	det
30	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 playground	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 children	case
32	playground	playground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 ever	case
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 put	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 ever	cc
36	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 ever	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	future	I		the top of the tree		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on top=Destination
2	boy		that				tree rules
3	knock down	future	I	the wall		then	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=Patient
4	is a	shall	my garden	the children's playground			tree rules

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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