The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 117
Every afternoon, when school was over, the children came and played with the Giant.
Who acts: school, afternoon · What happens: be, come, play
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 (school, afternoon), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 afternoon | det |
| 2 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 afternoon | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 over | advmod |
| 5 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 over | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 over | cop |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 11 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 over | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 children | det |
| 10 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 played | cc |
| 13 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 Giant | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Giant | det |
| 16 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 played | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | school | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | every afternoon | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | play | past | every afternoon not said here | giant property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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