The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 88
Then the Prince pulled off the right leg, and the Magician’s right leg fell off.
Who acts: Prince, right leg · What happens: pull off, fall off · To what, where: right leg
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 (Prince, right leg), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leg | det |
| 7 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leg | amod |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Magician | det |
| 12 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Magician | case |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leg | amod |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 fell | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | past | the Prince | the right leg | then | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fall off | past | the Magician's right leg | 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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