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title: Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, fo… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, for I am going back to Court almost immediately. Who acts: you, I. 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 158

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Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, for I am going back to Court almost immediately.

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** have, go back · **To what, where:** yourself, better avail, Court

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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 (you, 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:pg902:6:158
# text = Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, for I am going back to Court almost immediately.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | you | yourself |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | you | better avail |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent avail=Patient |
| 3 | **go back** | present · progressive | I |  | Court |  |  | immediately *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to court=Result |

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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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