The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 110

And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.

Who acts: people · What happens: go, find, play, see · To what, where: market, twelve o’clock, beautiful garden

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 (people), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 going	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 going	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 market	mark
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 o’clock	case
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 o’clock	nummod
11	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 o’clock	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Giant	det
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	xcomp
16	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 Giant	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 children	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 playing	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	24 garden	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 garden	det
22	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	23 beautiful	advmod
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 garden	amod
24	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 playing	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 seen	nsubj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 seen	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 seen	advmod
28	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 garden	acl:relcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the people	market	twelve o’clock			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location
2	find	past	people	twelve o’clock not said here			giant property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'clock=Topic
3	play	gerund	people not said here		the beautiful garden		with the children	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent
4	see	past · perfect	people	the beautiful garden not said here		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus

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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