The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 101
Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights made everything look scarlet.
Who acts: Squibs, Bengal Lights, everything · What happens: dance, make, look · To what, where: place, everything
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squibs, Bengal Lights, everything), 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:pg902:613): 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 danced | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Squibs | det |
| 3 | Squibs | squib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lights | det |
| 12 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Lights | compound |
| 13 | Lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 danced | conj |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | scarlet | scarlet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 look | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past | the Squibs | the place | then | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over place=Location | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Bengal Lights | everything | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | everything not said here | scarlet property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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