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title: When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen ti… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so she threw into the air seven pink stars. Who acts: Wheel. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 24

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When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so she threw into the air seven pink stars.

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**Who acts:** Wheel · **What happens:** make, spin round, go out, do, throw · **To what, where:** great public appearance, time, seven pink stars, air

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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 (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:pg902:6:24
# text = When she made her great public appearance she spun round nineteen times before she went out, and each time that she did so she threw into the air seven pink stars.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spun	spin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
31	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Wheel | Wheel's great public appearance |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
| 2 | **spin round** | past | Wheel |  |  |  | time |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go out** | past | Wheel |  |  |  |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past | Wheel | each time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Eventuality |
| 5 | **throw** | past | Wheel | seven pink stars |  |  | time | into the air *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer star=Theme into air=Result |

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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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