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title: And the tree broke at once into blossom, and the birds came and sang… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependen
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 107

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg902:3:107
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	round	round	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’s	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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