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title: “Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for hi… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed. Who acts: Miller, little Hans, Hans. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

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“Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed.

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**Who acts:** Miller, little Hans, Hans · **What happens:** come down, get, be · **To what, where:** money, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miller, little Hans, Hans), 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:pg902:5:1
# text = “Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	flour	flour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** *in a quote* | past | the Miller |  |  |  | morning | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Miller *not said here* | the money |  |  |  | for Miller's sack of flour | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent money=Theme for sack=Source |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | little Hans |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Hans |  |  | bed | still |  | tree rules |

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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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