The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 118

The young Student was still lying on the grass, where she had left him, and the tears were not yet dry in his beautiful eyes.

Who acts: young Student, love, tears · What happens: lie, leave, not be · To what, where: grass, Student, beautiful eyes

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Student, love, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg902:205): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Student	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Student	amod
3	Student	student	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lying	aux
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 lying	advmod
6	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 grass	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 left	advmod
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 grass	acl:relcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dry	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dry	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 tears	det
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dry	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 dry	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 dry	advmod
22	yet	yet	ADV	_	23 dry	advmod
23	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lying	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	27 eyes	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eyes	nmod:poss
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eyes	amod
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 dry	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	the young Student		the grass	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on grass=Location
2	leave	past · perfect	love	Student				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	not is	past	the tears		Student's beautiful eyes	yet	dry property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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