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title: You will no doubt be surprised to hear that I can fly up into the sk… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You will no doubt be surprised to hear that I can fly up into the sky, and come down in a shower of golden rain.” Who acts: You, doubt, I. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 14

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You will no doubt be surprised to hear that I can fly up into the sky, and come down in a shower of golden rain.”

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**Who acts:** You, doubt, I · **What happens:** know, be, hear, fly up, come down · **To what, where:** sky, shower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, doubt, I), 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:pg902:7:14
# text = You will no doubt be surprised to hear that I can fly up into the sky, and come down in a shower of golden rain.”
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	no	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | future | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | doubt |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly up** | can | I |  |  |  |  | into the sky *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sky=Result |
| 5 | **come down** | infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | a shower of golden rain |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shower=Location |

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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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