--- title: “‘I am very sorry,’ answered the Miller, ‘but it is my new lantern,… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “‘I am very sorry,’ answered the Miller, ‘but it is my new lantern, and it would be a great loss to me if anything happened to it.’ Who acts: wind, sorry, lantern, anything. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/) / 45 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 45 “‘I am very sorry,’ answered the Miller, ‘but it is my new lantern, and it would be a great loss to me if anything happened to it.’ **Who acts:** wind, sorry, lantern, anything · **What happens:** be, answer, happen · **To what, where:** Miller, new lantern, great loss, wind, lantern 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, sorry, lantern, anything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg902:5:45 # text = “‘I am very sorry,’ answered the Miller, ‘but it is my new lantern, and it would be a great loss to me if anything happened to it.’ 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Miller Miller PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 16 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 23 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nmod _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 32 nsubj _ _ 32 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | wind | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | sorry | | the Miller | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent miller=Eventuality | | 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | lantern | my new lantern and a great loss | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | lantern | a great loss | wind | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | anything | | lantern | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/)