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title: All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, fo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty. Who acts: I, you, Love, Power. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2, with its dependency
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 121

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All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.

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**Who acts:** I, you, Love, Power · **What happens:** ask, be · **To what, where:** that, true lover, return

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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 (I, you, Love, Power), 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:pg902:2:121
# text = All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	obl	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	wiser	wise	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Philosophy	Philosophy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	mightier	mighty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	parataxis	_	_
32	than	than	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Power	Power	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | I | that |  |  |  | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient |
| 2 | **is a** | present | you | a true lover |  | return |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | Love |  |  |  |  | than Philosophy; wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | love |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | Power |  |  |  |  | mighty *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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