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title: She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the lovelies… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the Queen’s maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball. Who acts: woman. 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 70

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She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the Queen’s maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball.

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**Who acts:** woman · **What happens:** embroider, wear · **To what, where:** passion flowers, satin gown, next Court ball

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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 (woman), 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:pg902:1:70
# text = She is embroidering passion-flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest of the Queen’s maids-of-honour to wear at the next Court-ball.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	satin	satin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	gown	gown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
28	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embroider** | present · progressive | woman | passion flowers |  | a satin gown |  | for the loveliest of the Queen's maids | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Product for lovely=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **wear** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* |  |  | the next Court ball |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at ball=Source |

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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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