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title: As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one’s mind fr… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one’s mind from higher things.” Who acts: attention. 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 37

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As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one’s mind from higher things.”

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**Who acts:** attention · **What happens:** age, distract · **To what, where:** one mind, higher things

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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 (attention), 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:pg902:7:37
# text = As for domesticity, it ages one rapidly, and distracts one’s mind from higher things.”
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	domesticity	domesticity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	appos	_	_
8	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	distracts	distract	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **age** |  | attention |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **distract** | present |  | one mind |  | higher things |  | as domesticity and ages | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer |

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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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