The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
As the parrot’s neck was wrung, Punchkin’s head twisted around, and with a groan, he fell dead.
Who acts: head · What happens: wring, twist around, fall · To what, where: neck
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 (head), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 wrung | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parrot | det |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 neck | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 parrot | case |
| 5 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wrung | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wrung | aux:pass |
| 7 | wrung | wring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 twisted | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wrung | punct |
| 9 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Punchkin | case |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twisted | nsubj |
| 12 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | around | around | ADV | _ | 12 twisted | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 groan | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 groan | det |
| 18 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fell | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 groan | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 twisted | conj |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fell | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wring | past · passive | the parrot's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | twist around | past | Punchkin's head | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | head | with a groan; dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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