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title: “‘Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?’ cried the… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?’ cried the Miller in a cheery voice. Who acts: you. 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 18

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“‘Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?’ cried the Miller in a cheery voice.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** have, mend, cry · **To what, where:** little Hans, hole, roof, Miller, cheery voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you), 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:pg902:5:18
# text = “‘Have you mended the hole in the roof yet, little Hans?’ cried the Miller in a cheery voice.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	mended	mend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Hans	Hans	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
17	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Miller	Miller	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	cheery	cheery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | little Hans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mend** *in a quote* | past | you | the hole |  | the roof | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | the Miller |  | a cheery voice |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miller=Topic |

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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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