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title: The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank o… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup of clear crystal. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 103

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The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup of clear crystal.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** sit, drink out · **To what, where:** top, cup

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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 (Prince), 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:pg902:5:103
# text = The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup of clear crystal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	crystal	crystal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the Prince and Princess |  |  | the top of the Great Hall |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at top=Location |
| 2 | **drink out** | past | the Prince and Princess *not said here* | a cup of clear crystal |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient |

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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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