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description: For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red rose, White rose”; and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled. Who acts: everybody, Red, King. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

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For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red rose, White rose”; and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled.

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**Who acts:** everybody, Red, King · **What happens:** go, say, rise, give, double · **To what, where:** White rose, Red rose, orders, salary · **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 (everybody, Red, King), 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:pg902:5:98
# text = For the next three days everybody went about saying, “White rose, Red rose, Red rose, White rose”; and the King gave orders that the Page’s salary was to be doubled.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Page	Page	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’s	's	PART	POS	_	32	case	_	_
34	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
37	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	doubled	double	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | everybody |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | everybody *not said here* | White rose |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rose=Topic |
| 3 | **rise** *in a quote* | past | Red | Red rose and White rose |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | the King | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **double** | past · passive |  | the Page's salary |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |

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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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