Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 79
Take your parrot, then," cried the boy, and with that he wrung the bird's neck, and threw it at the Magician; and, as he did so, Punchkin's head twisted round, and, with a fearful groan, he died!
Who acts: you, Prince, head · What happens: take, cry, wring, throw, do, twist · To what, where: parrot, boy, neck, Magician · 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 (you, Prince, head), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Take | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrung | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrung | cc |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 wrung | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 wrung | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wrung | nsubj |
| 16 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrung | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 threw | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 threw | cc |
| 23 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrung | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 threw | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Magician | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Magician | det |
| 27 | Magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 threw | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 twisted | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 twisted | cc |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 and | punct |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 did | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 twisted | advcl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 did | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 36 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 Punchkin | case |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 twisted | nsubj |
| 39 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 40 | round | round | ADV | _ | 39 twisted | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 groan | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 groan | cc |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 groan | punct |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 groan | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 groan | det |
| 46 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 groan | amod |
| 47 | groan | groan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 twisted | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 died | punct |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 died | nsubj |
| 50 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 twisted | conj |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | your parrot | then | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the boy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wring in a quote | past | Prince | the bird's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw in a quote | past | parrot | the Magician | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at magician=Destination | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | past | Prince | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | twist in a quote | past | Punchkin's head | with a fearful groan; round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | die in a quote | past | Prince | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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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