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title: “Be happy,” cried the Nightingale, “be happy; you shall have your re… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Be happy,” cried the Nightingale, “be happy; you shall have your red rose. Who acts: Nightingale, you. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 119

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“Be happy,” cried the Nightingale, “be happy; you shall have your red rose.

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**Who acts:** Nightingale, you · **What happens:** be, cry, have · **To what, where:** red rose · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nightingale, you), 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:pg902:2:119
# text = “Be happy,” cried the Nightingale, “be happy; you shall have your red rose.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the Nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | you | your red rose |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Patient |

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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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