Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 54

But she put her hand in her pocket and pulled out a tiny knife, only as long as her hand was broad, and this knife unfolded itself in one instant till it was such a length! and then Laili made a great sweep with her arm and her long, long knife, and off came Chumman Basa's head at one touch.

Who acts: Laili, hand, knife, head · What happens: put out, pull out, be, unfold, make, come · To what, where: hand, pocket, one instant, length, great sweep, one touch

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, hand, knife, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 put	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 pocket	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 pocket	nmod:poss
8	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pulled	cc
10	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 put	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	3 put	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 knife	det
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 knife	amod
14	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
16	only	only	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 long	advmod
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 put	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 broad	mark
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hand	nmod:poss
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 broad	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 broad	cop
23	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 long	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 unfolded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 unfolded	cc
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 knife	det
27	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 unfolded	nsubj
28	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
29	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 unfolded	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 instant	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 instant	nummod
32	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 unfolded	obl
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	38 length	mark
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 length	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 length	cop
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	38 length	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 length	det
38	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 unfolded	advcl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 made	cc
41	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	43 made	advmod
42	Laili	Laili	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 made	nsubj
43	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 sweep	det
45	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 sweep	amod
46	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 made	obj
47	with	with	ADP	_	49 arm	case
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 arm	nmod:poss
49	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 sweep	nmod
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 knife	cc
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 knife	nmod:poss
52	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 knife	amod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 long	punct
54	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 knife	amod
55	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 arm	conj
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 came	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 came	cc
58	off	off	ADV	_	59 came	advmod
59	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
60	Chumman	Chumman	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 head	nmod:poss
61	Basa	Basa	PROPN	Number=Sing	60 Chumman	flat
62	's	's	PART	_	60 Chumman	case
63	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	nsubj
64	at	at	ADP	_	66 touch	case
65	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	66 touch	nummod
66	touch	touch	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 came	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	Laili	Laili's hand	Laili's pocket		long property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent hand=Asset knife=Goal
2	pull out	participle	Laili not said here					vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Laili's hand				broad property	tree rules
4	unfold	past	this knife	hand	one instant			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
5	is a	past	hand	such length				tree rules
6	make	past	Laili	a great sweep		then	with Laili's arm and Laili's long long knife	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sweep=Product
7	come	past	Chumman's head		one touch		off property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at touch=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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