More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 71

So in the morning the old man cut off little dog Turpie's tail.

What happens: cut off

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. 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	So	so	ADV	_	14 tail	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 morning	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tail	nsubj
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 dog	amod
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 dog	amod
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	conj
12	Turpie	Turpie	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tail	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Turpie	case
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	participle							vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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