The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 48
The night was so black that little Hans could hardly see, and the wind was so strong that he could scarcely stand.
Who acts: night, little Hans, wind · What happens: be, see, stand
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (night, little Hans, wind), 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:pg902:470): 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 | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 black | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 black | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 black | advmod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Hans | amod |
| 8 | Hans | Hans | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 black | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strong | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 strong | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wind | det |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strong | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 strong | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 strong | advmod |
| 18 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 black | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 stand | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stand | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 stand | aux |
| 22 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 23 stand | advmod |
| 23 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 strong | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the night | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | could | little Hans | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the wind | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand | could | wind | scarcely property | vn assuming_position-50 «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: 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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