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title: He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving childre… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets. Who acts: Mystery, starving children. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 15

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He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets.

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**Who acts:** Mystery, starving children · **What happens:** fly, see, starve, look out · **To what, where:** dark lanes, white faces, black streets

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mystery, starving children), 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:pg902:2:15
# text = He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	listlessly	listlessly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | Mystery |  |  |  |  | into dark lanes *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lane=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | Mystery *not said here* | the white faces of starving children |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |
| 3 | **starve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look out** | gerund | starving children *not said here* |  |  | the black streets |  | listlessly *property* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=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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