The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 28

Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and the Flower-de-luce, the Daffodil and the Clove-Pink bloomed or blossomed in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower’s place, so that there were always beautiful things to look at, and pleasant odours to smell.

Who acts: months, one flower, beautiful things, Cowslip · What happens: bloom, blossom, go by, take, be, look · To what, where: proper order, one flower, place

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (months, one flower, beautiful things, Cowslip), 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	Columbine	Columbine	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 bloomed	compound
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 Ladysmock	cc
3	Ladysmock	Ladysmock	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Columbine	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Marjoram	punct
5	Marjoram	Marjoram	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Columbine	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Wild	cc
7	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	1 Columbine	conj
8	Basil	Basil	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Wild	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Cowslip	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Cowslip	det
11	Cowslip	cowslip	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Columbine	appos
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 luce	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 luce	det
14	Flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 de	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Flower	punct
16	de	de	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 luce	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 de	punct
18	luce	luce	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Cowslip	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Daffodil	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Daffodil	det
21	Daffodil	Daffodil	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Columbine	conj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Pink	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Pink	det
24	Clove	Clove	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Pink	compound
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 Clove	punct
26	Pink	Pink	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Columbine	conj
27	bloomed	bloom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 blossomed	cc
29	blossomed	blossom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 bloomed	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 order	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 order	nmod:poss
32	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 order	amod
33	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 blossomed	obl
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 went	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 months	det
36	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 went	nsubj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 blossomed	advcl
38	by	by	ADP	_	37 went	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 flower	punct
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 flower	nummod
41	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
42	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 flower	acl
43	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	44 flower	det
44	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 place	nmod:poss
45	’s	's	PART	_	44 flower	case
46	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 taking	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 were	punct
48	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	51 were	mark
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 so	fixed
50	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	51 were	expl
51	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bloomed	parataxis
52	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	53 beautiful	advmod
53	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 things	amod
54	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 were	nsubj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 look	mark
56	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 things	acl
57	at	at	ADP	_	56 look	obl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 odours	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 odours	cc
60	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 odours	amod
61	odours	odour	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 things	appos
62	to	to	PART	_	63 smell	mark
63	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 odours	acl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 bloomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bloom	participle				vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	blossom	participle			Cowslip's proper order	vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location
3	go by	past	the months	one flower		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	gerund	one flower not said here	another flower's place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
5	be	past	beautiful things		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	to-infinitive	beautiful things not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	smell	to-infinitive	beautiful things not said here			vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	order		Cowslip			nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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