--- title: “‘Oh, I am so sorry,’ said Hans, ‘but I am really very busy to-day. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “‘Oh, I am so sorry,’ said Hans, ‘but I am really very busy to-day. Who acts: great many people, Hans. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/119/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/) / 119 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 119 “‘Oh, I am so sorry,’ said Hans, ‘but I am really very busy to-day. **Who acts:** great many people, Hans · **What happens:** be, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (great many people, Hans), 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:pg902:4:119 # text = “‘Oh, I am so sorry,’ said Hans, ‘but I am really very busy to-day. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 7 so so ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 18 really really ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a great many people *= people* | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Hans | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | a great many people *= people* | | | | day | busy *property* | tree rules | 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 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/118/) - next →: [sentence 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/120/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)