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title: “‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 31

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“‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas.

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**Who acts:** Real friends, Miller, little Hans · **What happens:** have, use, say, nod, smile, feel · **To what, where:** everything, common, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Real friends, Miller, little 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:pg902:4:31
# text = “‘Real friends should have everything in common,’ the Miller used to say, and little Hans nodded and smiled, and felt very proud of having a friend with such noble ideas.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	nodded	nod	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	ideas	idea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | should | Real friends | everything |  | common |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |
| 2 | **use** *in a quote* | past | the Miller |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Miller *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **nod** *in a quote* | past | little Hans |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **smile** *in a quote* | past | little Hans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **feel** *in a quote* | past | the Miller *not said here* |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | the Miller *not said here* | a friend |  |  |  | with such noble ideas | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |

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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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