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title: “Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sle… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sleep. Who acts: dead, Wheel. 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 14

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“Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sleep.

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**Who acts:** dead, Wheel · **What happens:** whisper, go off, sleep · **To what, where:** Catherine Wheel

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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 (dead, Wheel), 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:pg902:6:14
# text = “Quite dead,” whispered the Catherine Wheel, and she went off to sleep.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Catherine	Catherine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Wheel	Wheel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | dead | the Catherine Wheel |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Topic |
| 2 | **go off** | past | Wheel |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Wheel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «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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