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title: “I shall set the whole world on fire, and make such a noise that nob… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I shall set the whole world on fire, and make such a noise that nobody will talk about anything else for a whole year.” Who acts: fire, noise. 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 64

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“I shall set the whole world on fire, and make such a noise that nobody will talk about anything else for a whole year.”

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**Who acts:** fire, noise · **What happens:** set, make, talk · **To what, where:** whole world, fire, noise

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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 (fire, noise), 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:pg902:7:64
# text = “I shall set the whole world on fire, and make such a noise that nobody will talk about anything else for a whole year.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	about	about	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	else	else	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** *in a quote* | shall | fire | the whole world |  | fire |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent world=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | fire *not said here* | such noise |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
| 3 | **talk** *in a quote* | future | such noise |  |  |  | year | about anything | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about anything=Topic |

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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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