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title: I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would thin… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would think me extremely foolish for parting with it, but I am not like the rest of the world. Who acts: I, wheelbarrow, great many people. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4, with its dependency
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 92

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I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would think me extremely foolish for parting with it, but I am not like the rest of the world.

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**Who acts:** I, wheelbarrow, great many people · **What happens:** know, be, think, part, not be · **To what, where:** me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wheelbarrow, great many people), 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:pg902:4:92
# text = I know it is very generous of me, and a great many people would think me extremely foolish for parting with it, but I am not like the rest of the world.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	parting	part	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
27	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
29	like	like	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | present | wheelbarrow |  |  |  |  | of me; generous *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | would | a great many people | me |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme |
| 4 | **part** | gerund | a great many people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wheelbarrow | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with it=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | like the rest; of the world | 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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