--- title: Opening, part 5 — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 5, «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “Early the next morning the Miller came down to get the money for his sack of flour, but little Hans was so tired that he was still in bed. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / Opening, part 5 # Opening, part 5 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/101/) — It was a magnificent ceremony, and the bride and bridegroom walked hand in hand under a canopy of purple velvet embroidered with little pearls. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/102/) — Then there was a State Banquet, which lasted for five hours. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/103/) — The Prince and Princess sat at the top of the Great Hall and drank out of a cup of clear crystal. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/104/) — Only true lovers could drink out of this cup, for if false lips touched it, it grew grey and dull and cloudy. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/105/) — “It’s quite clear that they love each other,” said the little Page, “as clear as crystal!” and the King doubled his salary a second time. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/106/) — “What an honour!” cried all the courtiers. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/107/) — After the banquet there was to be a Ball. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/108/) — The bride and bridegroom were to dance the Rose-dance together, and the King had promised to play the flute. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/109/) — He played very badly, but no one had ever dared to tell him so, because he was the King. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/110/) — Indeed, he knew only two airs, and was never quite certain which one he was playing; but it made no matter, for, whatever he did, everybody cried out, “Charming! charming!” - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/111/) — The last item on the programme was a grand display of fireworks, to be let off exactly at midnight. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/112/) — The little Princess had never seen a firework in her life, so the King had given orders that the Royal Pyrotechnist should be in attendance on the day of her marriage. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/113/) — “What are fireworks like?” she had asked the Prince, one morning, as she was walking on the terrace. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/114/) — “They are like the Aurora Borealis,” said the King, who always answered questions that were addressed to other people, “only much more natural. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/115/) — I prefer them to stars myself, as you always know when they are going to appear, and they are as delightful as my own flute-playing. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/116/) — You must certainly see them.” - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/117/) — So at the end of the King’s garden a great stand had been set up, and as soon as the Royal Pyrotechnist had put everything in its proper place, the fireworks began to talk to each other. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/118/) — “The world is certainly very beautiful,” cried a little Squib. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/119/) — “Just look at those yellow tulips. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/120/) — Why! if they were real crackers they could not be lovelier. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/121/) — I am very glad I have travelled. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/122/) — Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/123/) — “The King’s garden is not the world, you foolish squib,” said a big Roman Candle; “the world is an enormous place, and it would take you three days to see it thoroughly.” - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/124/) — “Any place you love is the world to you,” exclaimed a pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/125/) — They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/126/) — True love suffers, and is silent. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/127/) — I remember myself once—But it is no matter now. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/128/) — Romance is a thing of the past.” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/) - next →: [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/)