The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 63

They used to wander round the high wall when their lessons were over, and talk about the beautiful garden inside.

Who acts: children, lessons · What happens: use, wander, be, talk · To what, where: high wall

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 (children, lessons), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wander	mark
4	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	round	round	ADP	_	8 wall	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wall	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wall	amod
8	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wander	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 over	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 lessons	nmod:poss
11	lessons	lesson	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 over	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 over	cop
13	over	over	ADV	_	4 wander	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 talk	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 talk	cc
16	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wander	conj
17	about	about	ADP	_	20 garden	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
19	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 garden	amod
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 talk	obl
21	inside	inside	ADV	_	20 garden	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	children = child			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wander	to-infinitive	children = child not said here	the high wall		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round wall=Trajectory
3	is	past	children's lessons		over property	tree rules
4	talk	infinitive	children = child not said here		about the beautiful garden	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about garden=Topic

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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