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title: “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.” — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.” Who acts: Happy Prince. 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 21

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“The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”

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**Who acts:** Happy Prince · **What happens:** not dream, cry

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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 (Happy Prince), 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:pg902:1:21
# text = “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	dreams	dream	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dream** *in a quote* | present | the Happy Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund | the Happy Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for anything | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for anything=Recipient |

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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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