Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 75
The Prince pulled off the parrot's second wing, and the Magician's left arm tumbled off.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: pull off, leave, tumble off · To what, where: second wing, left arm
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 (Prince), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 pulled | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 parrot | det |
| 6 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wing | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 parrot | case |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 wing | amod |
| 9 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 arm | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 arm | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Magician | det |
| 13 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 arm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Magician | case |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arm | amod |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obl |
| 17 | tumbled | tumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 arm | acl |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 tumbled | compound:prt |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | past | the Prince | the parrot's second wing | the Magician's left arm obl | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | tumble off | participle | the Magician's left arm not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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