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title: “‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, ‘I take it quite as a compliment yo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, ‘I take it quite as a compliment your coming to me, and I will start off at once. Who acts: wind, your. 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 43

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“‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, ‘I take it quite as a compliment your coming to me, and I will start off at once.

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**Who acts:** wind, your · **What happens:** cry, take, come, start off · **To what, where:** little Hans, wheelbarrow, compliment, wind

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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 (wind, your), 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:pg902:5:43
# text = “‘Certainly,’ cried little Hans, ‘I take it quite as a compliment your coming to me, and I will start off at once.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Hans	Han	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	compliment	compliment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	obl	_	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 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past |  | little Hans |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Topic |
| 2 | **take** *in a quote* | present | wind | wheelbarrow |  |  |  | as a compliment | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as compliment=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | your | a compliment *not said here* | wind |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location compliment=Theme |
| 4 | **start off** *in a quote* | future | wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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