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title: And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant ly… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 138

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And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.

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**Who acts:** children, Giant lying · **What happens:** run, find, cover · **To what, where:** Giant lying, all

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:3:138
# text = And when the children ran in that afternoon, they found the Giant lying dead under the tree, all covered with white blossoms.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	lying	lying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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