--- title: Opening, part 6 — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · full text with trees · page 2 description: Opening, part 6, «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: “Nonsense!” said the Roman Candle, “Romance never dies. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / Opening, part 6 # Opening, part 6 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/101/) — Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights made everything look scarlet. — checked by a teacher - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/102/) — “Good-bye,” cried the Fire-balloon, as he soared away, dropping tiny blue sparks. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/103/) — Bang! - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/104/) — Bang! answered the Crackers, who were enjoying themselves immensely. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/105/) — Every one was a great success except the Remarkable Rocket. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/106/) — He was so damp with crying that he could not go off at all. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/107/) — The best thing in him was the gunpowder, and that was so wet with tears that it was of no use. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/108/) — All his poor relations, to whom he would never speak, except with a sneer, shot up into the sky like wonderful golden flowers with blossoms of fire. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/109/) — Huzza! - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/110/) — Huzza! cried the Court; and the little Princess laughed with pleasure. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/111/) — “I suppose they are reserving me for some grand occasion,” said the Rocket; “no doubt that is what it means,” and he looked more supercilious than ever. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/112/) — The next day the workmen came to put everything tidy. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/113/) — “This is evidently a deputation,” said the Rocket; “I will receive them with becoming dignity” so he put his nose in the air, and began to frown severely as if he were thinking about some very important subject. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/114/) — But they took no notice of him at all till they were just going away. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/115/) — Then one of them caught sight of him. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/116/) — “Hallo!” he cried, “what a bad rocket!” and he threw him over the wall into the ditch. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/117/) — “BAD Rocket? - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/118/) — BAD Rocket?” he said, as he whirled through the air; “impossible! - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/119/) — GRAND Rocket, that is what the man said. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/120/) — BAD and GRAND sound very much the same, indeed they often are the same”; and he fell into the mud. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/121/) — “It is not comfortable here,” he remarked, “but no doubt it is some fashionable watering-place, and they have sent me away to recruit my health. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/122/) — My nerves are certainly very much shattered, and I require rest.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/123/) — Then a little Frog, with bright jewelled eyes, and a green mottled coat, swam up to him. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/124/) — “A new arrival, I see!” said the Frog. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/125/) — “Well, after all there is nothing like mud. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/126/) — Give me rainy weather and a ditch, and I am quite happy. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/127/) — Do you think it will be a wet afternoon? - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/128/) — I am sure I hope so, but the sky is quite blue and cloudless. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/129/) — What a pity!” - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/130/) — “Ahem! ahem!” said the Rocket, and he began to cough. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/131/) — “What a delightful voice you have!” cried the Frog. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/132/) — “Really it is quite like a croak, and croaking is of course the most musical sound in the world. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/133/) — You will hear our glee-club this evening. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/134/) — We sit in the old duck pond close by the farmer’s house, and as soon as the moon rises we begin. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/135/) — It is so entrancing that everybody lies awake to listen to us. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/136/) — In fact, it was only yesterday that I heard the farmer’s wife say to her mother that she could not get a wink of sleep at night on account of us. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/137/) — It is most gratifying to find oneself so popular.” - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/138/) — “Ahem! ahem!” said the Rocket angrily. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/139/) — He was very much annoyed that he could not get a word in. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/140/) — “A delightful voice, certainly,” continued the Frog; “I hope you will come over to the duck-pond. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/141/) — I am off to look for my daughters. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/142/) — I have six beautiful daughters, and I am so afraid the Pike may meet them. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/143/) — He is a perfect monster, and would have no hesitation in breakfasting off them. - [144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/144/) — Well, good-bye: I have enjoyed our conversation very much, I assure you.” - [145](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/145/) — “Conversation, indeed!” said the Rocket. - [146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/146/) — “You have talked the whole time yourself. - [147](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/147/) — That is not conversation.” - [148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/148/) — “Somebody must listen,” answered the Frog, “and I like to do all the talking myself. - [149](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/149/) — It saves time, and prevents arguments.” - [150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/150/) — “But I like arguments,” said the Rocket. - [151](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/151/) — “I hope not,” said the Frog complacently. - [152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/152/) — “Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. - [153](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/153/) — Good-bye a second time; I see my daughters in the distance:” and the little Frog swam away. - [154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/154/) — “You are a very irritating person,” said the Rocket, “and very ill-bred. - [155](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/155/) — I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. - [156](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/156/) — It is what I call selfishness, and selfishness is a most detestable thing, especially to any one of my temperament, for I am well known for my sympathetic nature. - [157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/157/) — In fact, you should take example by me; you could not possibly have a better model. - [158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/158/) — Now that you have the chance you had better avail yourself of it, for I am going back to Court almost immediately. - [159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/159/) — I am a great favourite at Court; in fact, the Prince and Princess were married yesterday in my honour. - [160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/160/) — Of course you know nothing of these matters, for you are a provincial.” - [161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/161/) — “There is no good talking to him,” said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; “no good at all, for he has gone away.” - [162](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/162/) — “Well, that is his loss, not mine,” answered the Rocket. - [163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/163/) — “I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. - [164](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/164/) — I like hearing myself talk. - [165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/165/) — It is one of my greatest pleasures. - [166](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/166/) — I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/6/) **2** - ← previous: [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/5/) - next →: [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/7/) - ↑ back to [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/)