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title: My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. Who acts: courtiers, I. 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 62

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My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.

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**Who acts:** courtiers, I · **What happens:** call, be · **To what, where:** me, pleasure happiness · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (courtiers, I), 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:pg902:1:62
# text = My courtiers called me the Happy Prince, and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness.
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | My courtiers |  | me |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | pleasure happiness |  |  |  | indeed *property* | 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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