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title: Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights mad… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights made everything look scarlet. Who acts: Squibs, Bengal Lights, everything. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 6, sentence 101

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Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights made everything look scarlet.

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**Who acts:** Squibs, Bengal Lights, everything · **What happens:** dance, make, look · **To what, where:** place, everything

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This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Squibs, Bengal Lights, everything), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg902:613`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:6:101
# text = Then the Squibs danced all over the place, and the Bengal Lights made everything look scarlet.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Squibs	squib	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Bengal	Bengal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	scarlet	scarlet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dance** | past | the Squibs |  |  | the place | then |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over place=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Bengal Lights | everything |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look** | infinitive | everything *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scarlet *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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