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title: And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they foun… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen. Who acts: people. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 110

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And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** go, find, play, see · **To what, where:** market, twelve o’clock, beautiful garden

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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 (people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:3:110
# text = And when the people were going to market at twelve o’clock they found the Giant playing with the children in the most beautiful garden they had ever seen.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	o’clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · progressive | the people | market |  | twelve o’clock |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at o'clock=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | people | twelve o’clock *not said here* |  |  |  | giant *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'clock=Topic |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  | the beautiful garden |  | with the children | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with child=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | people | the beautiful garden *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer garden=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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