The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

Then ten o’clock struck, and then eleven, and then twelve, and at the last stroke of midnight every one came out on the terrace, and the King sent for the Royal Pyrotechnist.

Who acts: ten, one, King · What happens: strike, come out, send, stroke · To what, where: last stroke, midnight

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 (ten, one, King), 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:pg902:605): 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 struck	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 struck	nsubj
3	o’clock	o'clock	ADV	_	2 ten	advmod
4	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eleven	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 eleven	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 eleven	advmod
8	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 struck	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 twelve	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twelve	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 twelve	advmod
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 struck	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 came	cc
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 stroke	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stroke	det
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stroke	amod
18	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 midnight	case
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stroke	nmod
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
24	out	out	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 terrace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 terrace	det
27	terrace	terrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 sent	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 sent	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 King	det
31	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sent	nsubj
32	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 struck	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 Pyrotechnist	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Pyrotechnist	det
35	Royal	Royal	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 Pyrotechnist	compound
36	Pyrotechnist	Pyrotechnist	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 sent	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past	ten			then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come out	past	every one		the last stroke of midnight		on the terrace; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	send	past	the King				for the Royal Pyrotechnist	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	stroke			midnight				nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient

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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