--- title: Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep. Who acts: beautiful flower, country, notice board. 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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 (beautiful flower, country, notice board), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg902:3:68 # text = Once a beautiful flower put its head out from the grass, but when it saw the notice-board it was so sorry for the children that it slipped back into the ground again, and went off to sleep. 1 Once once SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 notice notice NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 so so ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 ccomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 slipped slip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 31 back back ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put out** | past | a beautiful flower | country's head | | the grass | | out *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal | | 2 | **see** | past | country | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | the notice board | | | | | for the children; sorry *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **slip back** | past | country | | | the ground | again | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **go off** | past | country *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | country *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/3/)