--- title: “‘Well, never mind, I will do without it,’ cried little Hans, and he… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “‘Well, never mind, I will do without it,’ cried little Hans, and he took down his great fur coat, and his warm scarlet cap, and tied a muffler round his throat, and started off. Who acts: I, sorry. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sorry), 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:pg902:5:46 # text = “‘Well, never mind, I will do without it,’ cried little Hans, and he took down his great fur coat, and his warm scarlet cap, and tied a muffler round his throat, and started off. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 Well well INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 mind mind VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 without without ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 15 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Hans Han PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 down down ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 24 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 fur fur NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 coat coat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 scarlet scarlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 muffler muffler NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 round round ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 44 off off ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | future | I | | | | | without lantern | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | | little Hans | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **take down** *in a quote* | past | sorry | sorry's great fur coat | | | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme | | 5 | **tie** *in a quote* | past | | a muffler | | | | round sorry's throat | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent muffler=Patient | | 6 | **start off** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/47/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/)