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title: _First Edition_ _May_ 1888 _Second Impression_ _January_ 1889 _Third… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _First Edition_ _May_ 1888 _Second Impression_ _January_ 1889 _Third Impression_ _February_ 1902 _Fourth Impression_ _September_ 1905 _Fifth Impression_ _February_ 1907 _Sixth Impression_ _March_ 1908 _Seventh Impression_ _March_ 1910 A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde,
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 9

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\_First Edition\_ \_May\_ 1888 \_Second Impression\_ \_January\_ 1889 \_Third Impression\_ \_February\_ 1902 \_Fourth Impression\_ \_September\_ 1905 \_Fifth Impression\_ \_February\_ 1907 \_Sixth Impression\_ \_March\_ 1908 \_Seventh Impression\_ \_March\_ 1910

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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:pg902:1:9
# text = _First Edition_ _May_ 1888 _Second Impression_ _January_ 1889 _Third Impression_ _February_ 1902 _Fourth Impression_ _September_ 1905 _Fifth Impression_ _February_ 1907 _Sixth Impression_ _March_ 1908 _Seventh Impression_ _March_ 1910
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	First	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	Edition	Edition	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
8	1888	1888	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Second	Second	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	January	January	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
16	1889	1889	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	16	punct	_	_
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	_
24	1902	1902	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	list	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Fourth	fourth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	27	punct	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	September	September	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
32	1905	1905	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	list	_	_
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	_
37	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	February	February	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	_
40	1907	1907	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
45	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	48	punct	_	_
48	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
49	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	Seventh	seventh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Impression	Impression	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
53	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	56	punct	_	_
56	1910	1910	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
```

## 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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