The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 116

But the children said that they did not know where he lived, and had never seen him before; and the Giant felt very sad.

Who acts: children, Giant · What happens: say, not know, live, not see, feel · To what, where: Giant · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 children	det
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 know	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 know	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 lived	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lived	nsubj
12	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	ccomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seen	cc
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	17 seen	advmod
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	before	before	ADV	_	17 seen	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Giant	det
23	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	nsubj
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 sad	advmod
26	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 felt	xcomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the children			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not know	past · do-support	children = child			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	live	past	Giant			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not see	past · perfect	the children not said here	Giant	before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	feel	past	the Giant		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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