Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 73
Then the boy took hold of the parrot, and tore off one of its wings; and as he did so the Magician's right arm fell off.
Who acts: boy, right arm · What happens: take, tore off, do, fall off, hold · To what, where: hold, one, parrot
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 (boy, right arm), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boy | det |
| 3 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 parrot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 parrot | det |
| 8 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 tore | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tore | cc |
| 11 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 tore | compound:prt |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 tore | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 wings | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 wings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 did | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 did | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 fell | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Magician | det |
| 24 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 arm | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 Magician | case |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 arm | amod |
| 27 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | nsubj |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 did | advcl |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 fell | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the boy | hold of the parrot | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | tore off | past | the boy not said here | one of parrot's wings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall off | past | the Magician's right arm | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | hold | the parrot | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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