The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 138
And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.
Who acts: children, Giant lying · What happens: run, find, cover · To what, where: Giant lying, all
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 lying), 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 | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ran | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 afternoon | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 afternoon | det |
| 8 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lying | det |
| 13 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lying | amod |
| 14 | lying | lying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lying | amod |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dead | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lying | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 blossoms | case |
| 23 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 blossoms | amod |
| 24 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the children | afternoon | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | children = child | the Giant lying | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lying=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle · passive | the Giant lying not said here | all | with white blossoms | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blossom=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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