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title: “I know I shall go much higher than the stars, much higher than the… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I know I shall go much higher than the stars, much higher than the moon, much higher than the sun. In fact, I shall go so high that—” Who acts: Rocket. 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 55

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“I know I shall go much higher than the stars, much higher than the moon, much higher than the sun. In fact, I shall go so high that—”

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**Who acts:** Rocket · **What happens:** know, go · **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 (Rocket), 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:pg902:7:55
# text = “I know I shall go much higher than the stars, much higher than the moon, much higher than the sun. In fact, I shall go so high that—”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	_
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sun.	sun.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	In	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Rocket |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | Rocket |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | Rocket |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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