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title: In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles lie in the mud and look lazily about them. Who acts: sun, crocodiles. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 152

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In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles lie in the mud and look lazily about them.

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**Who acts:** sun, crocodiles · **What happens:** be, lie, look · **To what, where:** Egypt, mud

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, crocodiles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:1:152
# text = In Egypt the sun is warm on the green palm-trees, and the crocodiles lie in the mud and look lazily about them.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	lazily	lazily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sun |  |  | Egypt |  | on the green palm trees; warm *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lie** | present | the crocodiles |  |  | the mud |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mud=Location |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | the crocodiles *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about crocodiles *= crocodile*; lazily *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about they=Theme |

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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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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