--- title: Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till the Ha… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till the Happy Prince looked quite dull and grey. Who acts: Leaf, Happy Prince. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/2/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/2/) / 21 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 21 Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till the Happy Prince looked quite dull and grey. **Who acts:** Leaf, Happy Prince · **What happens:** pick off, look 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 (Leaf, Happy Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg902:2:21 # text = Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till the Happy Prince looked quite dull and grey. 1 Leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 2 after after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 off off ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 till till SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 quite quite ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 dull dull ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick off** | past | Leaf after leaf of the fine gold | | | | | | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **look** | past | the Happy Prince | | | | | dull *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/2/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/2/22/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/2/)