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title: “Your picture was beautiful,” he murmured, “but you are more beautif… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Your picture was beautiful,” he murmured, “but you are more beautiful than your picture”; and the little Princess blushed. Who acts: picture, beautiful, you, little Princess. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 96

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“Your picture was beautiful,” he murmured, “but you are more beautiful than your picture”; and the little Princess blushed.

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**Who acts:** picture, beautiful, you, little Princess · **What happens:** be, murmur, blush · **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 (picture, beautiful, you, little Princess), 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:pg902:5:96
# text = “Your picture was beautiful,” he murmured, “but you are more beautiful than your picture”; and the little Princess blushed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	blushed	blush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Your picture |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | beautiful |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | than your picture; beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **blush** | past | the little Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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