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title: “I am sure that he has not often got such a chance of improving his… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am sure that he has not often got such a chance of improving his mind. Who acts: Rocket, fly, chance. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 7, sentence 3

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“I am sure that he has not often got such a chance of improving his mind.

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**Who acts:** Rocket, fly, chance · **What happens:** be, not get, improve, mind · **To what, where:** chance, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rocket, fly, chance), 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:pg902:7:3
# text = “I am sure that he has not often got such a chance of improving his mind.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
7	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	often	often	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	improving	improve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Rocket *= rocket* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | fly | such chance |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **improve** *in a quote* | gerund | such chance *not said here* | fly's mind |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 4 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | fly |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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