The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 137

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.”

Who acts: child, awe, me, garden · What happens: smile, say, let, play, come, be · To what, where: awe, me, garden, Paradise · 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 (child, awe, me, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 smiled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 child	det
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smiled	nsubj
4	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Giant	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Giant	det
7	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 smiled	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiled	parataxis
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 let	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	nsubj
16	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 let	xcomp
19	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 play	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 garden	nmod:poss
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 come	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 day	case
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 to	punct
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 come	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 come	aux
29	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 play	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 me	case
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 come	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 garden	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 garden	nmod:poss
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 come	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 Paradise	punct
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 Paradise	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 Paradise	cop
38	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 garden	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 smiled	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 smiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	the child					on the Giant	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past			awe				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	let in a quote	past	awe	me					tree rules
4	play in a quote	infinitive	me not said here			your garden		once property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come in a quote	shall	awe			my garden and Paradise	day	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location
6	is a in a quote	present	my garden and Paradise	Paradise					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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