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title: “Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny. Who acts: Tree, Wind, boy. 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 98

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“Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny.

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**Who acts:** Tree, Wind, boy · **What happens:** climb up, say, bend, be · **To what, where:** branches · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tree, Wind, boy), 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:pg902:3:98
# text = “Climb up! little boy,” said the Tree, and it bent its branches down as low as it could; but the boy was too tiny.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	too	too	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the Tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bend** | past | Wind | Wind's branches |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent branch=Material |
| 4 | **is** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  | tiny *property* | tree rules |

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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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