The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit.

Who acts: twelve peach trees · What happens: stand, be, break out, bear · To what, where: beautiful flowers, grass, twelve peach trees, delicate blossoms, rich fruit

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 (twelve peach trees), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 stood	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stood	obl
7	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flowers	amod
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stood	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 stars	case
11	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flowers	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 were	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 were	cc
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 were	expl
15	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 trees	nummod
17	peach	peach	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 peach	punct
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 were	nsubj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 broke	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 time	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 time	det
23	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 time	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 spring	punct
25	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 broke	obl
26	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 trees	acl:relcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 broke	compound:prt
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 blossoms	case
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 blossoms	amod
30	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 broke	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 pink	case
32	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 blossoms	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 pearl	cc
34	pearl	pearl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pink	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 bore	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 bore	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 autumn	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 autumn	det
39	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bore	obl
40	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stood	conj
41	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fruit	amod
42	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 bore	obj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past		beautiful flowers	the grass; here		like stars	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme over grass=Destination
2	be	past	twelve peach trees		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break out	past		twelve peach trees		time	into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into blossom=Result
4	bear	past		rich fruit		autumn		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient

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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