The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 107

And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang on it, and the little boy stretched out his two arms and flung them round the Giant’s neck, and kissed him.

Who acts: tree, birds · What happens: break, come, sing, stretch out, fling, kiss · To what, where: blossom, hand, little boy, boy, tree

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, birds), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 broke	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	nsubj
4	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 broke	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 blossom	case
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 broke	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 came	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sang	cc
15	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 came	conj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sang	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stretched	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stretched	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 boy	det
21	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 boy	amod
22	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stretched	nsubj:pass
23	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 broke	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 stretched	compound:prt
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 arms	nmod:poss
26	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 arms	nummod
27	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stretched	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flung	cc
29	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 stretched	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 flung	obj
31	round	round	ADP	_	35 neck	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 neck	det
33	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 neck	amod
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Giant	case
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flung	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kissed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 kissed	cc
38	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 broke	conj
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kissed	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	break	past	the tree		blossom		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	come	past	the birds				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sing speech: express	past	the birds not said here		hand		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location
4	stretch out	participle · passive		the little boy			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient arm=Result
5	fling	past		boy		round the Giant neck	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	kiss	past	the tree not said here	tree			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

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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