--- title: Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our goo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our good supper, and our great cask of red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature. Who acts: little Hans, great cask, envy, our. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Hans, great cask, envy, our), 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:pg902:4:46 # text = Why, if little Hans came up here, and saw our warm fire, and our good supper, and our great cask of red wine, he might get envious, and envy is a most terrible thing, and would spoil anybody’s nature. 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 Hans Hans PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 supper supper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 wine wine NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 32 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 envy envy NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 39 advmod _ _ 39 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 45 anybody anybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 47 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’s 's PART POS _ 45 case _ _ 47 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | little Hans | | | here | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | | our warm fire | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | | 3 | **get** | might | our great cask of red wine | | | | | envious *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is a** | present | envy | a terrible thing | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **spoil** | would | | anybody's nature | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fire** | | our | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)