--- title: “Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/) / 32 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 32 “Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship. **Who acts:** neighbours, rich Miller, friend, Hans, nothing, Miller · **What happens:** think, not give, have, store away, not trouble, give · **To what, where:** Miller, anything, return, hundred sacks, mill, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (neighbours, rich Miller, friend, Hans), 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:pg902:4:32 # text = “Sometimes, indeed, the neighbours thought it strange that the rich Miller never gave little Hans anything in return, though he had a hundred sacks of flour stored away in his mill, and six milch cows, and a large flock of woolly sheep; but Hans never troubled his head about these things, and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to listen to all the wonderful things the Miller used to say about the unselfishness of true friendship. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Sometimes sometimes ADV RB PronType=Ind 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 neighbours neighbour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ _ 10 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ _ 11 that that SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 Miller Miller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 16 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 17 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 Hans Han PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 compound _ _ 19 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 16 obj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 return return NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 though though SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 sacks sack NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 flour flour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 stored store VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 acl _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 39 milch milch ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 flock flock NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 woolly woolly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ; ; PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 50 but but CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 51 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj _ _ 52 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 53 troubled trouble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obj _ _ 56 about about ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 57 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 58 det _ _ 58 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 60 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 61 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 62 nsubj _ _ 62 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 conj _ _ 63 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 iobj _ _ 64 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 65 amod _ _ 65 pleasure pleasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obj _ _ 66 than than SCONJ IN _ 68 mark _ _ 67 to to PART TO _ 68 mark _ _ 68 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 acl _ _ 69 to to ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 70 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 73 det:predet _ _ 71 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 73 det _ _ 72 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 73 amod _ _ 73 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obl _ _ 74 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 75 det _ _ 75 Miller Miller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 76 nsubj _ _ 76 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 73 acl:relcl _ _ 77 to to PART TO _ 78 mark _ _ 78 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 76 xcomp _ _ 79 about about ADP IN _ 81 case _ _ 80 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 81 det _ _ 81 unselfishness unselfishness NOUN NN Number=Sing 78 obl _ _ 82 of of ADP IN _ 84 case _ _ 83 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 84 amod _ _ 84 friendship friendship NOUN NN Number=Sing 81 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 85 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | the neighbours | Miller | | | | indeed, sometimes, strange *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | | 2 | **not** **give** *in a quote* | past | the rich Miller | anything | | return | | a large flock of woolly sheep *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | | 3 | **have** *in a quote* | past | friend | a hundred sacks of flour | | | | six milch cows *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | | 4 | **store away** *in a quote* | participle | | a hundred sacks of flour *not said here* | | friend's mill | | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in mill=Location | | 5 | **not** **trouble** *in a quote* | past | Hans | friend's head | | | | about this things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus head=Experiencer | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | past | nothing | greater pleasure | friend | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pleasure=Theme | | 7 | **listen** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | greater pleasure *not said here* | | | | to all wonderful things | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to thing=Theme | | 8 | **use** *in a quote* | past | the Miller | all wonderful things *not said here* | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent thing=Theme clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Miller *not said here* | | | | | about the unselfishness of true friendship | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)