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title: The streets looked as if they were made of silver, they were so brig… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The streets looked as if they were made of silver, they were so bright and glistening; long icicles like crystal daggers hung down from the eaves of the houses, everybody went about in furs, and the little boys wore scarlet caps and skated on the ice. Who acts: streets, long icicles, everybody, litt
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 25

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The streets looked as if they were made of silver, they were so bright and glistening; long icicles like crystal daggers hung down from the eaves of the houses, everybody went about in furs, and the little boys wore scarlet caps and skated on the ice.

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**Who acts:** streets, long icicles, everybody, little boys · **What happens:** look, make, be, glisten, hang down, go about · **To what, where:** streets, eaves, furs, scarlet caps, ice

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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 (streets, long icicles, everybody, little boys), 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:pg902:2:25
# text = The streets looked as if they were made of silver, they were so bright and glistening; long icicles like crystal daggers hung down from the eaves of the houses, everybody went about in furs, and the little boys wore scarlet caps and skated on the ice.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	ccomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	glistening	glisten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	icicles	icicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	daggers	dagger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eaves	eave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	nsubj	_	_
34	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	about	about	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	furs	fur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
43	wore	wear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
44	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	skated	skate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	conj	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the streets |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | streets *= street* |  |  |  | of silver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **is** | past | streets *= street* |  |  |  |  | bright *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **glisten** | gerund | streets *= street* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hang down** | past | long icicles like crystal daggers |  |  | the eaves of the houses |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go about** | past | everybody |  |  | furs |  | about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wear** | past | the little boys | scarlet caps |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 8 | **skate** | participle | the little boys *not said here* |  |  | the ice |  |  | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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