Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 74
Punchkin then stretched out his left arm, crying, "Give me my parrot!"
Who acts: Punchkin · What happens: stretch out, cry, give · To what, where: left arm, parrot, Punchkin · 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), 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 | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stretched | advmod |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 stretched | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arm | nmod:poss |
| 6 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 arm | amod |
| 7 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 9 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stretched | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crying | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Give | punct |
| 12 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stretched | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Give | iobj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Give | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Give | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch out | past | Punchkin | boy's left arm | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Punchkin not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | Punchkin not said here | my parrot | Punchkin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient parrot=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: «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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