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title: He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud. Who acts: heart. 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 66

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He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** personal remarks

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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 (heart), 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:pg902:1:66
# text = He was too polite to make any personal remarks out loud.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
8	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | polite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | any personal remarks |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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