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title: Then ten o’clock struck, and then eleven, and then twelve, and at th… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its depende
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 93

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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.

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

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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 (ten, one, King), 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:pg902:605`): 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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:6:93
# text = 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.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	o’clock	o'clock	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	eleven	eleven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Royal	Royal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Pyrotechnist	Pyrotechnist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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