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title: “Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, “as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans. Who acts: Linnet, winter, primroses, Miller. A sentence of «The Happy
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

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“Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, “as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans.

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**Who acts:** Linnet, winter, primroses, Miller, sympathy · **What happens:** say, hop, be, begin, open, go down · **To what, where:** one leg, pale yellow stars, little Hans · **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 (Linnet, winter, primroses, Miller), 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:pg902:4:67
# text = “Well,” said the Linnet, hopping now on one leg and now on the other, “as soon as the winter was over, and the primroses began to open their pale yellow stars, the Miller said to his wife that he would go down and see little Hans.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Linnet	linnet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	primroses	primrose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
36	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
50	down	down	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
53	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Linnet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hop** | gerund | the Linnet *not said here* |  |  | one leg | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the winter |  |  |  |  | over, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | the primroses |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **open** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the primroses *not said here* | primroses's pale yellow stars |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location star=Theme |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | the Miller |  |  |  |  | to sympathy's wife | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to wife=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 7 | **go down** *in a quote* | would | sympathy |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 8 | **see** *in a quote* | present | sympathy *not said here* | little Hans |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer han=Stimulus |

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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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