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title: “‘It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder. 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 19

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“‘It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder.

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**What happens:** mend, answer, come down · **To what, where:** hole, little Hans, ladder

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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: 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:pg902:5:19
# text = “‘It is quite mended,’ answered little Hans, coming down the ladder.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	mended	mend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mend** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | hole |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | little Hans |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent han=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come down** *in a quote* | gerund |  | the ladder |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ladder=Theme |

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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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