The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 91

“Take your parrot, then,” said the boy, and with this he wrung the bird’s neck and threw it at what was left of the Magician.

Who acts: boy · What happens: take, say, wring, throw, leave · To what, where: parrot, neck · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 parrot	nmod:poss
4	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Take	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wrung	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wrung	cc
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 wrung	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 wrung	nsubj
17	wrung	wring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 neck	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 bird	case
21	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wrung	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 threw	cc
23	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wrung	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 threw	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 threw	obl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 left	aux:pass
28	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 what	acl:relcl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 Magician	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Magician	det
31	Magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 left	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	infinitive			your parrot	then		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument parrot=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	the boy					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wring	past	boy	the bird's neck			with this	vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent neck=Experiencer with this=Instrument
4	throw	past	boy not said here	parrot			what obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at what=Destination
5	leave	past · passive					of the Magician	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: of magician=Initial_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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 91