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title: “SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,”… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” Who acts: better, young Student. 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 60

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“SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.”

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**Who acts:** better, young Student · **What happens:** say, dance, bring, cry, be · **To what, where:** red roses, better, red rose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (better, young Student), 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:pg902:2:60
# text = “SHE said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	SHE	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Student	Student	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | better *= good* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **dance** *in a quote* | would | better *= good* |  |  |  |  | with better *= good* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | better *= good* | red roses | better *= good* |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination rose=Theme |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the young Student |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no red rose |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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