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title: “So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm. Who acts: Miller. 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 70

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“So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm.

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**Who acts:** Miller · **What happens:** tie, go down · **To what, where:** sails, hill

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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 (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:pg902:4:70
# text = “So the Miller tied the sails of the windmill together with a strong iron chain, and went down the hill with the basket on his arm.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	windmill	windmill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tie** *in a quote* | past | the Miller | the sails of the windmill |  |  |  | with a strong iron chain; together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sail=Patient with chain=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **go down** *in a quote* | past | the Miller *not said here* | the hill |  |  |  | with the basket on sympathy's arm | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent |

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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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