--- title: He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have b… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered ‘Pooh!’ Who acts: critic, I, young man, man. 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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 (critic, I, young man, man), 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:pg902:4:63 # text = He spoke of the matter at great length, and I am sure he must have been right, for he had blue spectacles and a bald head, and whenever the young man made any remark, he always answered ‘Pooh!’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 matter matter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 15 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 16 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 13 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 for for ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 spectacles spectacle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 bald bald ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 37 det _ _ 37 remark remark NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 41 advmod _ _ 41 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 42 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Pooh Pooh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 41 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | critic | | | great length | | of the matter | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | must · perfect | critic | | | | | right *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | critic | blue spectacles and a bald head | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spectacle=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | the young man | any remark | | | | whenever *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Product | | 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | man | | Pooh | | | always *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pooh=Eventuality | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/64/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)