The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 123

“The King’s garden is not the world, you foolish squib,” said a big Roman Candle; “the world is an enormous place, and it would take you three days to see it thoroughly.”

Who acts: garden, you, world, it · What happens: not be, squib, say, be, take, see · To what, where: world, big Roman Candle, enormous place, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (garden, you, world, it), 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	_	9 world	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 garden	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 King	case
5	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 world	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 world	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 world	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 squib	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 squib	nsubj
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 squib	amod
13	squib	squib	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 world	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 world	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 world	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Candle	det
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Candle	amod
19	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Candle	amod
20	Candle	candle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 place	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 place	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 place	cop
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 place	det
27	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 place	amod
28	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 take	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 take	obj
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 days	nummod
36	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 take	obj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 see	mark
38	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 take	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 see	obj
40	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	38 see	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	the King's garden	the world and foolish squib				tree rules
2	squib in a quote		you					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the world and foolish squib	a big Roman Candle				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	the world	a enormous place				tree rules
5	take in a quote	would	it		you	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination
6	see in a quote	to-infinitive		world			thoroughly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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