The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 120

I have got all my creepers to nail up, and all my flowers to water, and all my grass to roll.’

Who acts: I · What happens: get, roll · To what, where: creepers

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 got	aux
3	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 creepers	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 creepers	nmod:poss
6	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 nail	mark
8	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 creepers	acl
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 creepers	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flowers	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flowers	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 flowers	det:predet
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flowers	nmod:poss
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flowers	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grass	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 grass	cc
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 grass	det:predet
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 grass	nmod:poss
21	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 roll	mark
23	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 grass	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	I	my creepers				my flowers to water obl; my grass obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creeper=Stimulus
2	roll	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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