The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 65

Then the Spring came, and all over the country there were little blossoms and little birds.

Who acts: Spring, little blossoms · What happens: come, be · To what, where: country

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 (Spring, little blossoms), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Spring	det
3	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 were	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 were	cc
7	all	all	ADV	_	10 country	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 country	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 country	det
10	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 were	obl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 were	expl
12	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 blossoms	amod
14	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 were	nsubj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 birds	cc
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 blossoms	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Spring				then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be	past	little blossoms and little birds			the country; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over country=Location

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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