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title: “‘Dear little Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘would you mind carrying this… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Dear little Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?’ Who acts: Dear little Hans, you. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 118

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“‘Dear little Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?’

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**Who acts:** Dear little Hans, you · **What happens:** say, mind, carry · **To what, where:** sack · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear little Hans, you), 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:pg902:4:118
# text = “‘Dear little Hans,’ said the Miller, ‘would you mind carrying this sack of flour for me to market?’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
16	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | past | Dear little Hans |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mind** *in a quote* | would | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **carry** *in a quote* | gerund | you *not said here* | this sack of flour |  |  |  | for market | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |

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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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