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title: But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and sh… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by. Who acts: red rose, I, sorrow. 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 71

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But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by.

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**Who acts:** red rose, I, sorrow · **What happens:** be, sit, pass · **To what, where:** me

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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 (red rose, I, sorrow), 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:pg902:2:71
# text = But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
15	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | no red rose in my garden |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | shall | I |  |  |  |  | lonely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pass** | future | sorrow | me |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Trajectory |

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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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