The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 28
He did, though, for he was of a kindly disposition, and he made a most brilliant descent in a shower of golden rain.
Who acts: dead · What happens: do, be, make · To what, where: brilliant descent, shower
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 (dead), 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:pg902:557): 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 though | punct |
| 4 | though | though | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 disposition | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 disposition | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 disposition | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 disposition | cop |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 disposition | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 disposition | det |
| 11 | kindly | kindly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 disposition | amod |
| 12 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 made | nsubj |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 descent | det |
| 18 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 brilliant | advmod |
| 19 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 descent | amod |
| 20 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shower | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 shower | det |
| 23 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rain | case |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rain | amod |
| 26 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 shower | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | dead | though property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | dead | of a kindly disposition | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | past | dead | a brilliant descent | a shower of golden rain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=Product |
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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