--- title: So at the end of the King’s garden a great stand had been set up, an… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/117/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/) / 117 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:5:117 # text = 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. 1 So so ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 stand stand NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 16 up up ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 21 as as SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Royal Royal ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 Pyrotechnist Pyrotechnist PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 conj _ _ 27 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 26 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fireworks firework NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 37 obl _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/118/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/)