--- title: “‘Oh, don’t say that,’ cried little Hans, ‘I wouldn’t be unfriendly… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “‘Oh, don’t say that,’ cried little Hans, ‘I wouldn’t be unfriendly for the whole world’; and he ran in for his cap, and trudged off with the big sack on his shoulders. Who acts: Hans, great many people. 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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 (Hans, great many people), 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:pg902:4:122 # text = “‘Oh, don’t say that,’ cried little Hans, ‘I wouldn’t be unfriendly for the whole world’; and he ran in for his cap, and trudged off with the big sack on his shoulders. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 advcl _ _ 8 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 Hans Han PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 unfriendly unfriendly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 21 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 30 in in ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 trudged trudge VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 parataxis _ _ 37 off off ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sack sack NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 42 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 29 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Hans *not said here* | that | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Hans *not said here* | little Hans | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | would | a great many people *= people* | | | | | for the whole world; unfriendly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **run** *in a quote* | past | Hans | | | | | for Hans's cap | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for cap=Beneficiary | | 5 | **trudge off** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | with the big sack on Hans's shoulders | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/123/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)