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title: Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, an… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. Who acts: twelve peach trees. A sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar 
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# The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

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Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit.

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**Who acts:** twelve peach trees · **What happens:** stand, be, break out, bear · **To what, where:** beautiful flowers, grass, twelve peach trees, delicate blossoms, rich fruit

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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 (twelve peach trees), 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:pg902:3:47
# text = Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
17	peach	peach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	pink	pink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
40	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
41	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | beautiful flowers |  | the grass; here |  | like stars | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme over grass=Destination |
| 2 | **be** | past | twelve peach trees |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break out** | past |  | twelve peach trees |  |  | time | into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent that=Patient into blossom=Result |
| 4 | **bear** | past |  | rich fruit |  |  | autumn |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |

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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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