The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 108

And the other children, when they saw that the Giant was not wicked any longer, came running back, and with them came the Spring.

Who acts: other children, Giant · What happens: see, not be, come, run back

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 (other children, Giant), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 saw	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
3	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 children	amod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 saw	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 saw	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 wicked	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wicked	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wicked	cop
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 wicked	advmod
14	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saw	conj
15	any	any	ADV	_	16 longer	advmod
16	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 wicked	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
19	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 came	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 running	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 came	obl
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 saw	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Spring	det
27	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the other children			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	past	the Giant		long, wicked property	tree rules
3	come	past	the other children not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	run back	gerund	the other children not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past	the other children not said here	spring	with children = child	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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