--- title: “Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,” said the Student angr… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,” said the Student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it. Who acts: you, Student, street, cart wheel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Student, street, cart wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg902:3:35 # text = “Well, upon my word, you are very ungrateful,” said the Student angrily; and he threw the rose into the street, where it fell into the gutter, and a cart-wheel went over it. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 11 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 upon upon ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Student Student PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 into into ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 gutter gutter NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 41 over over ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | upon my word; ungrateful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Student | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **throw** | past | Student | the rose | | | | into the street *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer rose=Theme into street=Result | | 4 | **fall** | past | street | | | | | into the gutter *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into gutter=Result | | 5 | **go** | past | a cart wheel | | | street | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **word** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/36/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/)