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title: The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blu… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet. Who acts: daughter, little dog. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 29

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The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet.

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**Who acts:** daughter, little dog · **What happens:** sit, wind, lie · **To what, where:** doorway, blue silk, reel, feet

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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 (daughter, little dog), 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:pg902:3:29
# text = The daughter of the Professor was sitting in the doorway winding blue silk on a reel, and her little dog was lying at her feet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Professor	Professor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	reel	reel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | the daughter of the Professor |  |  | the doorway |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location |
| 2 | **wind** | gerund | the daughter of the Professor *not said here* | blue silk |  | a reel |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silk=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past · progressive | Professor's little dog |  |  | Professor's feet |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |

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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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