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title: In all the country-side there was no garden so lovely as his. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In all the country-side there was no garden so lovely as his. 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 25

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In all the country-side there was no garden so lovely as his.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** country side

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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: 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:pg902:4:25
# text = In all the country-side there was no garden so lovely as his.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  | all country side |  | lovely *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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