Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 76
"Give me my parrot!" cried he, and fell on his knees.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: give, cry, fall · To what, where: parrot, Prince, knees · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fell | cc |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 knees | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 knees | nmod:poss |
| 15 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | my parrot | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient parrot=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | Prince not said here | Prince's knees | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location |
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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