The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 117

So at the end of the King’s garden a great stand had been set up, and as soon as the Royal Pyrotechnist had put everything in its proper place, the fireworks began to talk to each other.

Who acts: fireworks · What happens: set up, put, begin, talk · To what, where: great stand, end, Royal Pyrotechnist, proper place

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fireworks), 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	So	so	ADV	_	15 set	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 end	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 end	det
4	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 garden	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 King	det
7	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 garden	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 King	case
9	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 end	nmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stand	det
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stand	amod
12	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 set	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 set	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 set	aux:pass
15	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 set	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
19	as	as	ADV	_	20 soon	advmod
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 put	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 put	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Pyrotechnist	det
23	Royal	Royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Pyrotechnist	amod
24	Pyrotechnist	Pyrotechnist	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 put	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 put	aux
26	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 set	conj
27	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	26 put	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 place	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 place	nmod:poss
30	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 place	amod
31	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 put	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 began	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fireworks	det
34	fireworks	firework	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 began	nsubj
35	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 place	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 talk	mark
37	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 began	xcomp
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 each	case
39	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	37 talk	obl
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 each	fixed
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set up	past · perfect · passive		a great stand		at the end of the King's garden		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at end=Destination
2	put	past · perfect · passive		the Royal Pyrotechnist	Pyrotechnist's proper place		soon property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset everything=Goal
3	begin	past	the fireworks	Pyrotechnist's proper place not said here				tree rules
4	talk	to-infinitive	the fireworks not said here				to each	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-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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