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title: She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, an… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will throng round her. Who acts: love, feet, courtiers. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 80

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She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will throng round her.

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**Who acts:** love, feet, courtiers · **What happens:** dance, not touch, throng · **To what, where:** floor

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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 (love, feet, courtiers), 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:pg902:2:80
# text = She will dance so lightly that her feet will not touch the floor, and the courtiers in their gay dresses will throng round her.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	throng	throng	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
24	round	round	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | future | love |  |  |  |  | lightly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **touch** | future | love's feet | the floor |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **throng** | future | the courtiers in courtiers's gay dresses |  |  |  |  | round love | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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