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title: As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honour, and was duly published in the Court Gazette. Who acts: salary, this. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 99

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As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honour, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.

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**Who acts:** salary, this · **What happens:** receive, not be, consider, publish · **To what, where:** salary, much use, use, Court Gazette

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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 (salary, this), 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:pg902:5:99
# text = As he received no salary at all this was not of much use to him, but it was considered a great honour, and was duly published in the Court Gazette.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	salary	salary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
8	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	duly	duly	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Gazette	Gazette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | salary | no salary |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salary=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | this |  | salary | all much use |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | past · passive |  | use |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **publish** | past · passive |  |  |  | the Court Gazette |  | duly *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |

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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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