The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 55

“My own garden is my own garden,” said the Giant; “any one can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.”

Who acts: own garden, one, nobody · What happens: be, say, understand, allow, play · To what, where: own garden, Giant, that, nobody, garden · 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 (own garden, one, nobody), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 garden	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 garden	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 garden	amod
4	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 garden	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 garden	cop
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 garden	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 garden	amod
8	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 garden	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 garden	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Giant	det
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 one	det
17	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 understand	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 understand	aux
19	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	parataxis
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 understand	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 allow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 allow	cc
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 allow	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 allow	aux
25	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 understand	conj
26	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 allow	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 play	mark
28	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 allow	xcomp
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 play	obl
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 myself	cc
32	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 understand	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 understand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	My own garden	my own garden		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	my own garden	the Giant		tree rules
3	understand in a quote	can	any one	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
4	allow in a quote	future	my own garden = garden	nobody		vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer nobody=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
5	play not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	nobody not said here		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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