--- title: And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.” Who acts: child, awe, me, garden. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/137/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/) / 137 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 137 And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.” **Who acts:** child, awe, me, garden · **What happens:** smile, say, let, play, come, be · **To what, where:** awe, me, garden, Paradise · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (child, awe, me, garden), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:3:137 # text = And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, “You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 smiled smile VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 “ " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ _ 38 Paradise paradise NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **smile** | past | the child | | | | | on the Giant | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | awe | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | past | awe | me | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **play** *in a quote* | infinitive | me *not said here* | | | your garden | | once *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | shall | awe | | | my garden and Paradise | day | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | my garden and Paradise | Paradise | | | | | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/138/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/)