The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 52

After the seven years were over he had said all that he had to say, for his conversation was limited, and he determined to return to his own castle.

Who acts: Giant, conversation · What happens: say, have, be, determine, return, converse · To what, where: Giant · 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 (Giant, conversation), 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	After	after	ADP	_	4 years	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 years	det
3	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 years	nummod
4	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obl
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux:pass
6	over	over	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 had	det:predet
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
14	to	to	PART	_	15 say	mark
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 limited	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 limited	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 conversation	nmod:poss
19	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 limited	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 limited	cop
21	limited	limited	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 say	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 determined	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 determined	cc
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 determined	nsubj
25	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 return	mark
27	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 determined	xcomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 castle	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 castle	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 castle	amod
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 return	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Giant	year		tree rules
2	have	past	Giant				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Giant not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Giant's conversation			limited property	tree rules
5	determine	past	Giant				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	return	to-infinitive	Giant not said here			to Giant's own castle result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
7	converse		Giant				nom conversation «communication intransitive»: poss=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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