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title: Why, perhaps the Prince and Princess may go to live in a country whe… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 67

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Why, perhaps the Prince and Princess may go to live in a country where there is a deep river, and perhaps they may have one only son, a little fair-haired boy with violet eyes like the Prince himself; and perhaps some day he may go out to walk with his nurse; and perhaps the nurse may go to sleep under a great elder-tree; and perhaps the little boy may fall into the deep river and be drowned.

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**Who acts:** Prince, deep river, Princes, river, nurse, little boy · **What happens:** go, live, be, have, go out, walk · **To what, where:** country, one son, great elder tree, deep river

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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 (Prince, deep river, Princes, river), 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:pg902:6:67
# text = Why, perhaps the Prince and Princess may go to live in a country where there is a deep river, and perhaps they may have one only son, a little fair-haired boy with violet eyes like the Prince himself; and perhaps some day he may go out to walk with his nurse; and perhaps the nurse may go to sleep under a great elder-tree; and perhaps the little boy may fall into the deep river and be drowned.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
3	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
27	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	violet	violet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
47	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	48	det	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
50	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
52	out	out	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
53	to	to	PART	TO	_	54	mark	_	_
54	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	advcl	_	_
55	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
60	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	nsubj	_	_
63	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
64	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	xcomp	_	_
67	under	under	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
68	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	72	det	_	_
69	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	72	amod	_	_
70	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	72	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	70	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	66	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	80	punct	_	_
74	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	80	cc	_	_
75	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	80	advmod	_	_
76	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
77	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	78	amod	_	_
78	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	nsubj	_	_
79	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	80	aux	_	_
80	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	64	parataxis	_	_
81	into	into	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
82	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	84	det	_	_
83	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	84	amod	_	_
84	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	_
85	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	87	cc	_	_
86	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	87	aux:pass	_	_
87	drowned	drown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	80	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | may | the Prince and Princess |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** | to-infinitive | the Prince and Princess *not said here* |  |  | a country |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location |
| 3 | **be** | present | a deep river |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | may | Princes *= prince* | one son |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient |
| 5 | **go out** | may | river |  |  |  | day | out, perhaps *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **walk** | to-infinitive | river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with river's nurse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **go** | may | the nurse |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | the nurse *not said here* |  |  | a great elder tree |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **fall** | may | the little boy |  |  |  |  | into the deep river *result*; perhaps *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
| 10 | **drown** | infinitive · passive | the little boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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