The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 104

But when the children saw him they were so frightened that they all ran away, and the garden became winter again.

Who acts: children, garden · What happens: see, be, run away, become · To what, where: tree, children, winter

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 (children, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 saw	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 became	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 saw	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 frightened	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
10	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 saw	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 ran	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ran	nsubj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 they	det
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 frightened	advcl
15	away	away	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 became	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 garden	det
19	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	nsubj
20	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 became	xcomp
22	again	again	ADV	_	20 became	advmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the children	tree			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past · passive		children = child		frightened property	tree rules
3	run away	past	children = child			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	become	past	the garden	winter	again		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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