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title: “It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest. Who acts: cap, road, Hans. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 123

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“It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest.

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**Who acts:** cap, road, Hans · **What happens:** be, reach, have, sit down, rest · **To what, where:** hot day, sixth milestone

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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 (cap, road, Hans), 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:pg902:4:123
# text = “It was a very hot day, and the road was terribly dusty, and before Hans had reached the sixth milestone he was so tired that he had to sit down and rest.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	before	before	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	milestone	milestone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	down	down	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | cap | a hot day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the road |  |  |  |  | dusty, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** *in a quote* | past · perfect |  | the sixth milestone |  |  | before Hans |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent milestone=Theme |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Hans | the sixth milestone *not said here* |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | Hans |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **sit down** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **rest** *in a quote* | infinitive | Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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