--- title: “I had thoughts of entering public life once myself,” remarked the D… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I had thoughts of entering public life once myself,” remarked the Duck; “there are so many things that need reforming. Who acts: I, thoughts, many things. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/30/) [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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/) / 30 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 30 “I had thoughts of entering public life once myself,” remarked the Duck; “there are so many things that need reforming. **Who acts:** I, thoughts, many things · **What happens:** have, enter, remark, be, need, reform · **To what, where:** thoughts, public life · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, thoughts, many things), 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:pg902:7:30 # text = “I had thoughts of entering public life once myself,” remarked the Duck; “there are so many things that need reforming. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 csubj _ _ 4 thoughts thought NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 of of SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 entering enter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 acl _ _ 7 public public ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 once once SCONJ IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 13 remarked remark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 amod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Duck duck NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 need need VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 reforming reform VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | I | thoughts | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | | 2 | **enter** *in a quote* | gerund | thoughts *not said here* | public life | | | | once myself | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Destination | | 3 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **does** *in a quote* | present | many things | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **need** *in a quote* | present | many things | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **reform** *not said to happen, in a quote* | gerund | many things *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/31/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/)