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title: I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants t… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. Who acts: I, people, you, one. 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 155

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I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.

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**Who acts:** I, people, you, one · **What happens:** hate, talk, do, want · **To what, where:** people

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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 (I, people, you, one), 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:pg902:6:155
# text = I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	talk	talk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	15	advmod	_	_
14	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	oneself	oneself	PRON	PRP	PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hate** | present | I | people |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | present | people |  |  |  |  | about people | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **do** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **want** | present | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **talk** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about oneself | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about oneself=Topic |
| 6 | **do** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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