The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 1, sentence 81

Round his neck is a chain of pale green jade, and his hands are like withered leaves.”

Who acts: neck, hands · What happens: be, wither

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: who acts (neck, hands), 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	Round	round	ADP	_	6 chain	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 neck	nmod:poss
3	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chain	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 chain	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 chain	det
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 jade	case
8	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 jade	amod
9	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 jade	amod
10	jade	jade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chain	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 leaves	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 leaves	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hands	nmod:poss
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 leaves	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 leaves	cop
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 leaves	case
17	withered	wither	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 leaves	amod
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chain	appos
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 leaves	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	King's neck	round a chain; of pale green jade	tree rules
2	wither	participle			vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	present	King's hands	like withered leaves	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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