The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 89
The parrot’s left leg came off, and at once Punchkin’s left leg fell down.
Who acts: parrot, left leg · What happens: be, leave, come off, fall down · To what, where: parrot, 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 (parrot, left 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 parrot | det |
| 2 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 parrot | cop |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 parrot | acl |
| 5 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fell | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 once | case |
| 11 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 fell | obl |
| 12 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Punchkin | case |
| 14 | left | left | 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 | 6 came | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the parrot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | leave | participle | the parrot not said here | leg | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come off | past | the parrot | off property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall down | past | Punchkin's left leg | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
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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