Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 63

So just as the swift flight of the wild ducks had brought him over the king's palace in the city of Benares, he let go of the stick he was biting, and falling in the open courtyard, split in two!

Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: bring, let, go, bite, fall, split · To what, where: swift flight, palace, stick, open courtyard, two

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise), 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	So	so	ADV	_	12 brought	advmod
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 flight	advmod
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 flight	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flight	det
5	swift	swift	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flight	amod
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 ducks	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ducks	det
9	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ducks	compound
10	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flight	nmod
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obj
14	over	over	ADP	_	18 palace	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 palace	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 brought	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 city	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 city	det
21	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 palace	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Benares	case
23	Benares	Benares	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 city	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 let	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	nsubj
26	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	conj
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 stick	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stick	det
30	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 biting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 biting	aux
33	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 stick	acl:relcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 falling	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 falling	cc
36	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 let	advcl
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 courtyard	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 courtyard	det
39	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 courtyard	amod
40	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 falling	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 split	punct
42	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 falling	conj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 two	case
44	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 split	obl
45	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past · perfect · passive		the swift flight of the wild ducks	the king's palace in the city of Benares		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination
2	let	past	Tortoise				tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Tortoise not said here			of the stick	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of stick=Initial_Location
4	bite	past · progressive	Tortoise	the stick not said here			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
5	fall	gerund	Tortoise not said here		the open courtyard		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location
6	split	participle	Tortoise not said here		two		vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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