--- title: To the April sun and the April showers, In field and forest, the bab… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics description: To the April sun and the April showers, In field and forest, the baby flowers Lift their golden faces and azure eyes; And wet with the tears of the winter-fairies, Soon bloom and blossom the emerald prairies, Like the fabled Garden of Paradise. Who acts: baby flowers, Soon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby flowers, Soon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg8122:7:147 # text = To the April sun and the April showers, In field and forest, the baby flowers Lift their golden faces and azure eyes; And wet with the tears of the winter-fairies, Soon bloom and blossom the emerald prairies, Like the fabled Garden of Paradise. 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 April April PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 showers shower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 In in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 baby baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 Lift lift VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 faces face NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 azure azure NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 parataxis _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Soon Soon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 bloom bloom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 blossom blossom VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 emerald emerald NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 43 prairies prairie NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 Like like ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 fabled fable VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 amod _ _ 48 Garden Garden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | present | the baby flowers | flowers's golden faces and azure eyes | | the April sun and the April showers and field and forest | | the fabled Garden of Paradise *parataxis* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme to sun=Destination | | 2 | **bloom** | present | Soon | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **blossom** | present | the baby flowers *not said here* | the emerald prairies | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location prairie=Theme | | 4 | **fable** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/146/) - next →: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/148/) - ↑ back to [Heyóka Wacípee \[16\]--the Giant's Dance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg8122/7/)