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title: The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the N… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it. Who acts: North Wind. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 97

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The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it.

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**Who acts:** North Wind · **What happens:** cover, blow, roar · **To what, where:** poor tree, Wind

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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 (North Wind), 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:pg902:3:97
# text = The poor tree was still quite covered with frost and snow, and the North Wind was blowing and roaring above it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the poor tree |  |  | still | with frost and snow | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with frost=Theme |
| 2 | **blow** | past · progressive | the North Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | the North Wind *not said here* |  |  | Wind |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above it=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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