The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 122

He could not play about any more, so he sat in a huge armchair, and watched the children at their games, and admired his garden.

Who acts: Giant · What happens: not play, sit, watch, admire · To what, where: any, huge armchair, children, games, 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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 play	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 play	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 play	advmod
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 any	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 play	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 any	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 sat	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 play	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 armchair	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 armchair	det
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 armchair	amod
15	armchair	armchair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 watched	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 watched	cc
18	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 children	det
20	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 watched	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 games	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 games	nmod:poss
23	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 watched	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 admired	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 admired	cc
26	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 watched	conj
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 garden	nmod:poss
28	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 admired	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 play	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not play	could	Giant	any		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme
2	sit	past	Giant		a huge armchair	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armchair=Location
3	watch	past	Giant not said here	the children	children's games	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme
4	admire	past	Giant not said here	Giant's garden		vn admire-31.2 «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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