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title: “It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds. Who acts: courtship, ridiculous attachment, attachment, river. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 32

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“It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds.

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**Who acts:** courtship, ridiculous attachment, attachment, river · **What happens:** be, twitter, have · **To what, where:** ridiculous attachment, other Swallows, money

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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 (courtship, ridiculous attachment, attachment, river), 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:pg902:1:32
# text = “It is a ridiculous attachment,” twittered the other Swallows; “she has no money, and far too many relations”; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	attachment	attachment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	twittered	twitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Swallows	Swallow	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	relations	relation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | courtship | a ridiculous attachment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **twitter** | past | a ridiculous attachment | the other Swallows |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent swallow=Theme |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | attachment | no money |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | of Reeds; full, indeed *property* | tree rules |

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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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