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title: Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season. Who acts: friend, handful. A sentence of «Th
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 30

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Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season.

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**Who acts:** friend, handful · **What happens:** be, not go, lean, pluck, fill · **To what, where:** wall, large nosegay, pockets, fruit season

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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 (friend, handful), 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:pg902:4:30
# text = Indeed, so devoted was the rich Miller to little Hans, that he would never go by his garden without leaning over the wall and plucking a large nosegay, or a handful of sweet herbs, or filling his pockets with plums and cherries if it was the fruit season.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	leaning	lean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	handful	handful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	conj	_	_
47	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
49	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | devoted, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **go** | would | friend |  |  |  |  | by friend's garden | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by garden=Location |
| 3 | **lean** | gerund | friend *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wall=Location |
| 4 | **pluck** | gerund | friend *not said here* | a large nosegay |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Patient |
| 5 | **fill** | gerund | a handful of sweet herbs | friend's pockets |  |  |  | with plums and cherries | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with plum=Instrument |
| 6 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | handful | the fruit season |  |  |  |  | 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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