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title: All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into h… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her. Who acts: crystal, 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 every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 139

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All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her.

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**Who acts:** crystal, thorn, life blood · **What happens:** sing, go, ebb away

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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 (crystal, 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:pg902:2:139
# text = All night long she sang, and the thorn went deeper and deeper into her breast, and her life-blood ebbed away from her.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	deeper	deep	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|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	23	nsubj	_	_
23	ebbed	ebb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | crystal |  |  |  | night | long *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **go** | past | the thorn |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ebb away** | participle | crystal's life blood |  |  |  |  | from crystal; away *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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