The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 46

It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass.

Who acts: garden · What happens: be · To what, where: large lovely 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 (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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 garden	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 garden	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 garden	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
5	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 garden	amod
6	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grass	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 grass	case
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
10	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 garden	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 garden	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	garden	a large lovely garden					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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