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title: It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us. Who acts: moon, everybody. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 135

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It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us.

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**Who acts:** moon, everybody · **What happens:** entrance, lie, listen · **To what, where:** us

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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 (moon, everybody), 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:pg902:6:135
# text = It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	entrancing	entrance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **entrance** | present · progressive | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lie** | present | everybody |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **listen** | to-infinitive | everybody *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to we=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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