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title: All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your h… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.” Who acts: you, thorn, life blood. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 111

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All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.”

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**Who acts:** you, thorn, life blood · **What happens:** sing, pierce, flow, become · **To what, where:** me, heart, veins, mine

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thorn, life blood), 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:pg902:2:111
# text = All night long you must sing to me, and the thorn must pierce your heart, and your life-blood must flow into my veins, and become mine.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	flow	flow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
31	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | must | you |  | me |  | night |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
| 2 | **pierce** | must | the thorn | your heart |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient |
| 3 | **flow** | must | your life blood |  |  | my veins |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive | the thorn *not said here* | mine |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient my=Result |

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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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