The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 107

The best thing in him was the gunpowder, and that was so wet with tears that it was of no use.

Who acts: best thing, that, thing · What happens: be · To what, where: gunpowder

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 (best thing, that, thing), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gunpowder	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thing	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gunpowder	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gunpowder	det
8	gunpowder	gunpowder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wet	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wet	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 wet	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wet	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 wet	advmod
14	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gunpowder	parataxis
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 tears	case
16	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wet	obl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 use	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 use	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 use	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 use	case
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 use	det
22	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wet	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gunpowder	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the best thing in Bang	the gunpowder		tree rules
2	is	past	that		with tears; wet property	tree rules
3	is	past	thing		of no use	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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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