Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 77
The Prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the Magician's right leg fell off: the Prince pulled off the parrot's left leg, down fell the Magician's left.
Who acts: Prince, right leg · What happens: pull off, fall off, fall, leave · To what, where: right leg, left leg
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, right leg), 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 leg | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 parrot | case |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leg | amod |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pulled | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Magician | det |
| 12 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Magician | case |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 leg | amod |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 fell | compound:prt |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 pulled | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | nsubj |
| 21 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pulled | parataxis |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 pulled | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 parrot | det |
| 24 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 leg | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 parrot | case |
| 26 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 leg | amod |
| 27 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pulled | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 30 fell | advmod |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 pulled | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Magician | det |
| 32 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 left | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Magician | case |
| 34 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 fell | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | 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 right leg | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fall off | past | the Magician's right leg | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | pull off | past | the Prince | the parrot's left leg | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | the Prince not said here | down property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leave | participle | the Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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