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title: “‘You are certainly very thoughtful about others,’ answered the Wife… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘You are certainly very thoughtful about others,’ answered the Wife, as she sat in her comfortable armchair by the big pinewood fire; ‘very thoughtful indeed. Who acts: Wife. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 39

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“‘You are certainly very thoughtful about others,’ answered the Wife, as she sat in her comfortable armchair by the big pinewood fire; ‘very thoughtful indeed.

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**Who acts:** Wife · **What happens:** be, answer, sit · **To what, where:** Wife, comfortable armchair · **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 (Wife), 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:pg902:4:39
# text = “‘You are certainly very thoughtful about others,’ answered the Wife, as she sat in her comfortable armchair by the big pinewood fire; ‘very thoughtful indeed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
8	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	armchair	armchair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	pinewood	pinewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Wife *= wife* |  |  |  |  | about others; certainly, thoughtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | the Wife |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wife=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sit** *in a quote* | past | wife |  |  | wife's comfortable armchair |  | by the big pinewood fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armchair=Location |

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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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