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title: I will certainly take care not to give away anything again. — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will certainly take care not to give away anything again. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 63

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I will certainly take care not to give away anything again.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, not give away · **To what, where:** care, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg902:5:63
# text = I will certainly take care not to give away anything again.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	away	away	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | future | I | care |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **give away** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | anything |  |  | again |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |

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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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