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title: “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. Who acts: Arguments, everybody. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 152

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“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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**Who acts:** Arguments, everybody · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** same opinions

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arguments, everybody), 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:pg902:6:152
# text = “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Arguments	argument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	extremely	extremely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Arguments |  |  |  |  | extremely, vulgar *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** *in a quote* | present | everybody | the same opinions |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=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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