Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 60
Punchkin saw him, and came to him quickly, and said, "My boy, where did you get that parrot?
Who acts: Punchkin, you · What happens: see, come, say, get · To what, where: Prince, parrot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, 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 (Punchkin, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 boy | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 boy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 get | advmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 boy | acl:relcl |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 parrot | det |
| 23 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Punchkin | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Punchkin not said here | Prince | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Punchkin not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | that parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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