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title: “Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “will you not s… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “will you not stay with me for one night, and be my messenger? Who acts: Swallow, you. 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 82

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“Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “will you not stay with me for one night, and be my messenger?

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**Who acts:** Swallow, you · **What happens:** say, not stay, be · **To what, where:** messenger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Swallow, you), 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:pg902:1:82
# text = “Swallow, Swallow, little Swallow,” said the Prince, “will you not stay with me for one night, and be my messenger?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Swallow and little Swallow |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **stay** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  | night | with Swallow and little Swallow *= swallow* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my messenger |  |  |  |  | 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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