The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 80
The Autumn gave golden fruit to every garden, but to the Giant’s garden she gave none.
Who acts: Autumn, change · What happens: give · To what, where: golden fruit, garden, none, Giant 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 (Autumn, change), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Autumn | det |
| 2 | Autumn | Autumn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fruit | amod |
| 5 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 garden | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 garden | det |
| 13 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 garden | amod |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Giant | case |
| 15 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 18 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Autumn | golden fruit | every garden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to garden=Recipient | |||
| 2 | give | past | change | none | the Giant garden | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent none=Theme to garden=Recipient |
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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