The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 33

Then, when the autumn came they all flew away.

Who acts: autumn, relations · What happens: come, fly away

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (autumn, relations), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 autumn	det
5	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flew	nsubj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 flew	advmod
9	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 flew	advmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the autumn				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fly away	past	relations = relation					away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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