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title: Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one anot… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one another’s arms to try and keep themselves warm. Who acts: two little boys. 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 16

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Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one another’s arms to try and keep themselves warm.

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**Who acts:** two little boys · **What happens:** lie, try, keep · **To what, where:** arms, archway

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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 (two little boys), 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:pg902:2:16
# text = Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one another’s arms to try and keep themselves warm.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	archway	archway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past · progressive | two little boys | another's arms |  | the archway of a bridge |  | in one | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location arm=Theme |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | two little boys *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **keep** | infinitive | two little boys *not said here* | arms *= arm* |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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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