The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 2, sentence 25

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

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.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 streets	det
2	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 looked	nsubj
3	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 made	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 made	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 made	aux:pass
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 looked	ccomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 silver	case
10	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bright	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bright	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bright	cop
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 bright	advmod
15	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	parataxis
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 glistening	cc
17	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bright	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hung	punct
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 icicles	amod
20	icicles	icicle	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	nsubj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 daggers	case
22	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 daggers	amod
23	daggers	dagger	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 icicles	nmod
24	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
25	down	down	ADV	_	24 hung	advmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 eaves	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 eaves	det
28	eaves	eave	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hung	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 houses	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 houses	det
31	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eaves	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 went	punct
33	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 went	nsubj
34	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hung	conj
35	about	about	ADV	_	34 went	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 furs	case
37	furs	fur	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 went	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 wore	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 wore	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 boys	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 boys	amod
42	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wore	nsubj
43	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 looked	parataxis
44	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 caps	compound
45	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 wore	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 skated	cc
47	skated	skate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 wore	conj
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 ice	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 ice	det
50	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 skated	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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

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.

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