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title: BY OSCAR WILDE — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: BY OSCAR WILDE A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 2

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BY OSCAR WILDE

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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: 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:pg902:1:2
# text = BY OSCAR WILDE
1	BY	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	OSCAR	OSCAR	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	WILDE	WILDE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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