The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 109
“It is your garden now, little children,” said the Giant, and he took a great axe and knocked down the wall.
Who acts: hand, garden, Giant · What happens: be, say, take, knock down · To what, where: garden, Giant, great axe, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hand, garden, Giant), 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 garden | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 garden | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 garden | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 garden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 garden | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 children | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 children | amod |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 garden | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 garden | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 garden | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Giant | det |
| 14 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 axe | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 axe | amod |
| 21 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knocked | cc |
| 23 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADP | _ | 23 knocked | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knocked | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | hand | your garden and little children | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your garden and little children | the Giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Giant | a great axe | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 4 | knock down | past | Giant not said here | the wall | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent wall=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.
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