The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 80
He is wrapped in yellow linen, and embalmed with spices.
What happens: wrap, embalm · To what, where: King, yellow linen
This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wrapped | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrapped | aux:pass |
| 3 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 linen | case |
| 5 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 linen | amod |
| 6 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrapped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 embalmed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 embalmed | cc |
| 9 | embalmed | embalm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrapped | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 spices | case |
| 11 | spices | spice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 embalmed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap | present · passive | King | yellow linen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in linen=Destination | ||||
| 2 | embalm | participle | with spices | tree rules |
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.
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