Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 78

Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried, "Give me my parrot!" "

Who acts: Nothing, Prince · What happens: remain, save, roll, cry, give · To what, where: limbless body, eyes, parrot, Nothing · 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 (Nothing, 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	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 remained	nsubj
2	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 save	mark
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
7	limbless	limbless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 head	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 head	det
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 body	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rolled	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 rolled	cc
14	still	still	ADV	_	16 rolled	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 rolled	nsubj
16	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 rolled	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cried	cc
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 remained	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
24	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cried	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Give	iobj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 parrot	nmod:poss
27	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Give	obj
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Give	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	remain	past	Nothing				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	save	present	Prince	the limbless body and the head			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme
3	roll	past	Prince	Prince's eyes		still	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent
4	cry speech: express	past	Nothing not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give in a quote	infinitive		my parrot	Nothing		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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