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title: He did, though, for he was of a kindly disposition, and he made a mo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 28

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He did, though, for he was of a kindly disposition, and he made a most brilliant descent in a shower of golden rain.

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**Who acts:** dead · **What happens:** do, be, make · **To what, where:** brilliant descent, shower

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:6:28
# text = He did, though, for he was of a kindly disposition, and he made a most brilliant descent in a shower of golden rain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	though	though	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	kindly	kindly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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