Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 64

And there arose a universal cry, "A tortoise has fallen in the open courtyard, and has split in two!"

Who acts: tortoise · What happens: arise, fall, split · To what, where: universal cry, open courtyard, two · Speech: someone speaks here

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 arose	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 arose	expl
3	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cry	det
5	universal	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cry	amod
6	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fallen	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 fallen	punct
9	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tortoise	det
10	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fallen	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fallen	aux
12	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 arose	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 courtyard	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 courtyard	det
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 courtyard	amod
16	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fallen	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 split	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 split	cc
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 split	aux
20	split	split	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 arose	parataxis
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 two	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 split	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	arise	past		a universal cry	there	tree rules
2	fall in a quote	present · perfect	a tortoise		the open courtyard	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in courtyard=Location
3	split in a quote	present · perfect			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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