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title: “‘What a silly boy you are!’ cried the Miller; ‘I really don’t know… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘What a silly boy you are!’ cried the Miller; ‘I really don’t know what is the use of sending you to school. Who acts: silly boy, clergyman, use. 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 44

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“‘What a silly boy you are!’ cried the Miller; ‘I really don’t know what is the use of sending you to school.

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**Who acts:** silly boy, clergyman, use · **What happens:** boy, cry, not know, be, send · **To what, where:** Miller, use, you, school

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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 (silly boy, clergyman, use), 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:pg902:4:44
# text = “‘What a silly boy you are!’ cried the Miller; ‘I really don’t know what is the use of sending you to school.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	parataxis	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	sending	send	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boy** *in a quote* |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | a silly boy | the Miller |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **know** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the clergyman *= clergyman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the use |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **send** *in a quote* | gerund | the use *not said here* |  | you | school |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to school=Destination |

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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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