The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 45

EVERY afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant’s garden.

Who acts: jewels, children · What happens: come, use, go, play · To what, where: school, 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 (jewels, children), 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	EVERY	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 afternoon	det
2	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 used	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 coming	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 coming	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 coming	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coming	aux
7	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 afternoon	parataxis
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coming	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 afternoon	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 children	det
12	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 used	nsubj
13	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 go	mark
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 used	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 play	cc
17	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Giant	det
20	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 garden	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 Giant	case
22	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 play	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	come	past · progressive	jewels = jewel	school		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from school=Initial_Location
2	use	past	the children		afternoon	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go	to-infinitive	the children not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	infinitive	the children not said here	the Giant's garden		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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