Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 33

When the parrot's legs and wings are pulled off, Punchkin loses his legs and arms; and when its neck is wrung, his head twists round and he dies.

Who acts: Punchkin, head · What happens: pull off, lose, wring, twist, die · To what, where: legs, neck

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Punchkin, head), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 pulled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 parrot	det
3	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 legs	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 parrot	case
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pulled	nsubj:pass
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wings	cc
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 legs	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pulled	aux:pass
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 loses	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 loses	punct
12	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 loses	nsubj
13	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 legs	nmod:poss
15	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 loses	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 arms	cc
17	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 legs	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 wrung	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wrung	cc
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 wrung	advmod
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 neck	nmod:poss
22	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wrung	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wrung	aux:pass
24	wrung	wring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 loses	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 twists	punct
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 head	nmod:poss
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 twists	nsubj
28	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 wrung	conj
29	round	round	ADV	_	28 twists	advmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dies	cc
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 dies	nsubj
32	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 twists	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 loses	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pull off	present · passive		the parrot's legs and wings		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	lose	present	Punchkin	Punchkin's legs and arms		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality
3	wring	present · passive		parrot's neck		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	twist	present	Punchkin's head		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	die	present	Punchkin			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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