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title: Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. Who acts: Dear Prince, I, next spring, you. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1, with its depend
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 154

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Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away.

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**Who acts:** Dear Prince, I, next spring, you · **What happens:** leave, not forget, bring back, give away · **To what, where:** you, two beautiful jewels

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear Prince, I, next spring, you), 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:pg902:1:154
# text = Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away.
1	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	back	back	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	nmod	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | must | Dear Prince | you |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | future | I | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring back** | future | next spring | two beautiful jewels | you |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **give away** | present · perfect | you |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |

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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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