The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
But the only reply the boy made was to break off one of its wings, and as he did so the Magician’s right arm fell off.
Who acts: only reply, boy, right arm · What happens: make, be, do, fall off
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, 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 (only reply, boy, right arm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reply | det |
| 3 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reply | amod |
| 4 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boy | det |
| 6 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 break | cop |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 break | mark |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 break | compound:prt |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 break | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 wings | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 did | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 did | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 did | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 did | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 fell | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Magician | det |
| 23 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Magician | case |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arm | amod |
| 26 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fell | nsubj |
| 27 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 did | advcl |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 fell | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the only reply | the boy nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the only reply not said here | one of reply's wings obj; break property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall off | past | the Magician's right arm | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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