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title: It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round the house so terribly that at first he thought it was merely the storm. Who acts: rap, wind. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 35

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It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round the house so terribly that at first he thought it was merely the storm.

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**Who acts:** rap, wind · **What happens:** be, blow, roar, think · **To what, where:** wild night, house, storm · **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 (rap, wind), 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:pg902:5:35
# text = It was a very wild night, and the wind was blowing and roaring round the house so terribly that at first he thought it was merely the storm.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	roaring	roar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | rap | a wild night |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | past · progressive | the wind |  |  |  |  | terribly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **roar** | gerund | the wind *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | rap | the storm |  |  |  | merely *property* | 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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