--- title: The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. Who acts: tears. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/1/54/) [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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/1/) / 54 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 54 The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. **Who acts:** tears · **What happens:** fill, run down · **To what, where:** eyes, golden cheeks This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg902:1:54 # text = The eyes of the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were running down his golden cheeks. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 14 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 running run VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 cheeks cheek NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past · passive | | the eyes of the Happy Prince | | | | with tears | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with tear=Instrument | | 2 | **run down** | past · progressive | tears | cloud's golden cheeks | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location cheek=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/1/53/) - next →: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/1/55/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/1/)