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title: “Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away i… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in a little street there is a poor house. Who acts: poor house. 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 67

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“Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in a little street there is a poor house.

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**Who acts:** poor house · **What happens:** continue, be · **To what, where:** statue, low musical voice, little street

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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 (poor house), 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:pg902:1:67
# text = “Far away,” continued the statue in a low musical voice, “far away in a little street there is a poor house.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	statue	statue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past |  | the statue |  | a low musical voice |  | away, far *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent statue=Theme |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a poor house | a little street *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot street=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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