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title: Her long ermine-cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head wa… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Her long ermine-cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived. Who acts: long ermine cloak, head, Princess. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5, wit
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 5, sentence 90

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Her long ermine-cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived.

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**Who acts:** long ermine cloak, head, Princess · **What happens:** reach, be, live · **To what, where:** feet, tiny cap, Snow Palace

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long ermine cloak, head, Princess), 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:pg902:5:90
# text = Her long ermine-cloak reached right down to her feet, on her head was a tiny cap of silver tissue, and she was as pale as the Snow Palace in which she had always lived.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	ermine	ermine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	right	right	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	tissue	tissue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	Snow	Snow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	38	advmod	_	_
38	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Princess's long ermine cloak |  |  | Princess's feet |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent down foot=Path |
| 2 | **is** | past | Princess's head |  |  | a tiny cap |  | of silver tissue | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | as the Snow Palace; pale *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **live** | past · perfect | Princess |  |  | the Snow Palace |  | always *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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