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title: “Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget tha… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Who acts: Common sense, you. 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 54

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“Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable.

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**Who acts:** Common sense, you · **What happens:** say, forget, be · **To what, where:** Rocket · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Common sense, you), 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:pg902:6:54
# text = “Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Rocket	rocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	indignantly	indignantly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	forget	forget	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	uncommon	uncommon	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Common sense | the Rocket |  |  |  | indignantly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent rocket=Topic |
| 2 | **forget** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Common sense *= sense* |  |  |  |  | uncommon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* |  | Common sense *= sense* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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