--- title: I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me yo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank. Who acts: I, you. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/101/) [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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/) / 101 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 101 I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank. **Who acts:** I, you · **What happens:** give, go · **To what, where:** wheelbarrow, you, plank, me 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, you), 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:pg902:4:101 # text = I have given you my wheelbarrow, and now you are going to give me your plank. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 wheelbarrow wheelbarrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 iobj _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 plank plank NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | present · perfect | I | my wheelbarrow | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wheelbarrow=Theme | | 2 | **go** | present · progressive | you | | | | now | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | your plank | me | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient plank=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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/102/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)