The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 111

All day long they played, and in the evening they came to the Giant to bid him good-bye.

Who acts: people · What happens: play, come, bid · To what, where: Giant

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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl:unmarked
3	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 played	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 played	nsubj
5	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 evening	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 evening	det
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 played	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Giant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Giant	det
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 came	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 bid	mark
17	bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bid	obj
19	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bye	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 good	punct
21	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bid	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	people		day	long property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	people		evening	to the Giant	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to giant=Initial_Location
3	bid	to-infinitive	people not said here	Giant			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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