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title: His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stay… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. Who acts: friends, Friend. 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 27

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His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed.

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**Who acts:** friends, Friend · **What happens:** go away, stay, be · **To what, where:** Egypt

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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 (friends, Friend), 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:pg902:1:27
# text = His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	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 | **go away** | past · perfect | Master's friends |  |  | Egypt |  | away, before *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to egypt=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stay** | past · perfect | Friend |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Friend |  |  |  |  | for love; with the beautiful Reed | tree rules |

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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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