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title: “It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some fashionable watering-place, and they have sent me away to recruit my health. Who acts: BAD, Rocket, doubt. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 121

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“It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some fashionable watering-place, and they have sent me away to recruit my health.

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**Who acts:** BAD, Rocket, doubt · **What happens:** not be, remark, be, send away, recruit · **To what, where:** fashionable watering place, poppies, health · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BAD, Rocket, doubt), 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:pg902:6:121
# text = “It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some fashionable watering-place, and they have sent me away to recruit my health.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	fashionable	fashionable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	watering	watering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	recruit	recruit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
32	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | BAD |  |  | here |  | comfortable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | Rocket |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | no doubt | some fashionable watering place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **send away** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | poppies *= poppy* |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **recruit** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | my health |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=Theme |

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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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