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title: Suppose, for instance, anything happened to me to-night, what a misf… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Suppose, for instance, anything happened to me to-night, what a misfortune that would be for every one! Who acts: you, anything, night, misfortune. 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 49

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Suppose, for instance, anything happened to me to-night, what a misfortune that would be for every one!

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**Who acts:** you, anything, night, misfortune · **What happens:** suppose, happen, misfortune, be · **To what, where:** me

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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, anything, night, misfortune), 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:pg902:6:49
# text = Suppose, for instance, anything happened to me to-night, what a misfortune that would be for every one!
1	Suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	7	nsubj	_	_
7	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for instance | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **happen** | past | anything |  | me |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **misfortune** |  | night and a misfortune |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | would | a misfortune |  |  |  |  | for every one | tree rules |

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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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