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title: And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvell… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song. Who acts: song. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 2

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And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song.

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**Who acts:** song · **What happens:** blossom, follow · **To what, where:** marvellous rose, top most spray, song

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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 (song), 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:pg902:3:2
# text = And on the top-most spray of the Rose-tree there blossomed a marvellous rose, petal following petal, as song followed song.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	top	top	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	Rose	Rose	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	blossomed	blossom	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	petal	petal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	case	_	_
21	petal	petal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blossom** | past |  | a marvellous rose and petal |  | the top most spray of the Rose tree; there |  | follow petal | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location rose=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **follow** | past | song | song |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |

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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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