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title: The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight. Who acts: last item. 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 111

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The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight.

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**Who acts:** last item · **What happens:** be, let off · **To what, where:** grand display

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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 (last item), 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:pg902:5:111
# text = The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	item	item	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	programme	programme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fireworks	firework	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the last item on the programme | a grand display |  |  |  | of fireworks | tree rules |
| 2 | **let off** | to-infinitive · passive | the last item on the programme *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight | exactly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient» |

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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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