--- title: Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and th… — The Happy Prince, and Other Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and the Flower-de-luce, the Daffodil and the Clove-Pink bloomed or blossomed in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower’s place, so that there were always beautiful things to look at, and pleasant odours --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Happy Prince, and Other Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/) / 28 # The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 28 Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and the Flower-de-luce, the Daffodil and the Clove-Pink bloomed or blossomed in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower’s place, so that there were always beautiful things to look at, and pleasant odours to smell. **Who acts:** months, one flower, beautiful things, Cowslip · **What happens:** bloom, blossom, go by, take, be, look · **To what, where:** proper order, one flower, place This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (months, one flower, beautiful things, Cowslip), 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:pg902:4:28 # text = Columbine and Ladysmock, Marjoram and Wild Basil, the Cowslip and the Flower-de-luce, the Daffodil and the Clove-Pink bloomed or blossomed in their proper order as the months went by, one flower taking another flower’s place, so that there were always beautiful things to look at, and pleasant odours to smell. 1 Columbine Columbine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 Ladysmock Ladysmock PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Marjoram Marjoram PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 Wild Wild PROPN NNP _ 1 conj _ _ 8 Basil Basil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Cowslip cowslip NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 appos _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 14 Flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 de de NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 luce luce NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Daffodil Daffodil PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 Clove Clove PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Pink Pink PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 27 bloomed bloom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 28 or or CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 blossomed blossom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 32 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ _ 37 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 38 by by ADP IN _ 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 taking take VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 acl _ _ 43 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 44 det _ _ 44 flower flower NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’s 's PART POS _ 44 case _ _ 46 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 51 mark _ _ 49 that that SCONJ IN _ 48 fixed _ _ 50 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 51 expl _ _ 51 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 52 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 53 advmod _ _ 53 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 54 acl _ _ 57 at at ADP IN _ 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 60 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 odours odour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 appos _ _ 62 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 63 smell smell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** | participle | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **blossom** | participle | | | | Cowslip's proper order | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location | | 3 | **go by** | past | the months | one flower | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | gerund | one flower *not said here* | another flower's place | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 5 | **be** | past | beautiful things | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **smell** | to-infinitive | beautiful things *not said here* | | | | | | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **order** | | Cowslip | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/29/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg902/4/)