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title: Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, fo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb. Who acts: Bitter, wilder, Nightingale, Death. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its depe
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 13

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Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.

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**Who acts:** Bitter, wilder, Nightingale, Death, Love · **What happens:** be, grow, sing, perfect, not die · **To what, where:** pain, song, Love

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bitter, wilder, Nightingale, Death), 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:pg902:3:13
# text = Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.
1	Bitter	bitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wilder	wild	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	conj	_	_
12	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	perfected	perfect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Bitter | the pain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | wilder | Nightingale's song |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Nightingale |  |  |  |  | of the Love; of the Love | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **perfect** | present · passive | Death | the Love |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **die** | present | the Love |  |  |  |  | in the tomb | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tomb=Attribute |
| 6 | **sing** |  | Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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