--- title: “He must have a truly romantic nature,” said the Catherine Wheel, “f… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “He must have a truly romantic nature,” said the Catherine Wheel, “for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about”; and she heaved a deep sigh, and thought about the deal box. Who acts: Rocket, Catherine Wheel, nothing, Wheel. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/) / 87 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 87 “He must have a truly romantic nature,” said the Catherine Wheel, “for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about”; and she heaved a deep sigh, and thought about the deal box. **Who acts:** Rocket, Catherine Wheel, nothing, Wheel · **What happens:** have, say, weep, be, heave, think · **To what, where:** romantic nature, deep sigh · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Rocket, Catherine Wheel, nothing, Wheel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg902:6:87 # text = “He must have a truly romantic nature,” said the Catherine Wheel, “for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about”; and she heaved a deep sigh, and thought about the deal box. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 truly truly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 romantic romantic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 nature nature NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Catherine Catherine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 Wheel Wheel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 weeps weep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 22 expl _ _ 22 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 22 nsubj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 23 nmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 weep weep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 acl _ _ 28 about about ADP IN _ 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 heaved heave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 40 about about ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | must | Rocket | a romantic nature | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Catherine Wheel | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **weep** *in a quote* | present | Rocket | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **weep** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **heave** | past | Wheel | a deep sigh | | | | | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Wheel *not said here* | | | | | about the deal box | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about box=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/88/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/)