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title: He picked up crumbs outside the baker’s door when the baker was not… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He picked up crumbs outside the baker’s door when the baker was not looking and tried to keep himself warm by flapping his wings. Who acts: snow, baker. 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 27

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He picked up crumbs outside the baker’s door when the baker was not looking and tried to keep himself warm by flapping his wings.

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**Who acts:** snow, baker · **What happens:** pick up, not look, try, keep, flap · **To what, where:** crumbs, snow, wings

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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 (snow, baker), 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:pg902:2:27
# text = He picked up crumbs outside the baker’s door when the baker was not looking and tried to keep himself warm by flapping his wings.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	flapping	flap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pick up** | past | snow | crumbs |  |  |  | outside the baker's door | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **look** | past · progressive | the baker |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** | past | snow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | snow *not said here* | snow |  |  |  | warm *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 5 | **flap** | gerund | snow *not said here* | snow's wings |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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