--- title: “Well, really,” said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, “I think… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, really,” said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, “I think you should have told me that before you began. Who acts: Water rat, you. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/76/) [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/) / 76 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 76 “Well, really,” said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, “I think you should have told me that before you began. **Who acts:** Water rat, you · **What happens:** say, think, tell, begin · **To what, where:** angry manner, you, Water rat · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Water rat, you), 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:pg902:5:76 # text = “Well, really,” said the Water-rat, in a very angry manner, “I think you should have told me that before you began. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 really really ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 rat rat NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 manner manner NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux _ _ 25 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 before before SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Water rat | | | a angry manner | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in manner=Manner | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the Water rat *= rat* | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | should · perfect · passive | | you | the Water rat *= rat* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Topic | | 4 | **begin** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | 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 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/)