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title: I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess we… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess were married yesterday in my honour. Who acts: I, my. 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 159

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I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess were married yesterday in my honour.

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**Who acts:** I, my · **What happens:** be, marry, honour · **To what, where:** great favourite, Court, Prince, fact

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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, my), 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:pg902:6:159
# text = I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess were married yesterday in my honour.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	favourite	favourite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Court	Court	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
18	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | a great favourite |  | Court |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **marry** | past · passive |  | the Prince and Princess |  | fact | yesterday | in my honour | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **honour** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=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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