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description: Indeed, I took the chair at a meeting some time ago, and we passed resolutions condemning everything that we did not like. Who acts: I, we, resolutions. 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 31

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Indeed, I took the chair at a meeting some time ago, and we passed resolutions condemning everything that we did not like.

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**Who acts:** I, we, resolutions · **What happens:** take, pass, condemn, not like · **To what, where:** chair, meeting, resolutions, everything

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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 (I, we, resolutions), 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:pg902:7:31
# text = Indeed, I took the chair at a meeting some time ago, and we passed resolutions condemning everything that we did not like.
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	resolutions	resolution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	condemning	condemn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | I | the chair |  | a meeting |  | indeed *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent chair=Theme at meeting=Asset |
| 2 | **pass** | past | we | resolutions |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme resolution=Trajectory |
| 3 | **condemn** | gerund | resolutions *not said here* | everything |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **like** | past · do-support | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=Theme |

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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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