Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 13

So the boy twisted his own left ear, and there he stood no longer a poor, common, ugly man, but a grand young prince with a moon on his forehead and a star on his chin.

Who acts: boy · What happens: twist, stand · To what, where: own left ear, forehead

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	_	4 twisted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twisted	nsubj
4	twisted	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ear	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ear	amod
7	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ear	amod
8	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twisted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stood	cc
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 stood	expl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twisted	conj
14	no	no	ADV	_	15 longer	advmod
15	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 stood	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 man	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 poor	punct
19	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 common	punct
21	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 longer	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 prince	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 prince	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 prince	det
26	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 prince	amod
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 prince	amod
28	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twisted	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 moon	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 moon	det
31	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prince	nmod
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 forehead	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 forehead	nmod:poss
34	forehead	forehead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twisted	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 star	cc
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 star	det
37	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 forehead	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 chin	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 chin	nmod:poss
40	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 star	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 twisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	past	the boy	boy's own left ear		prince's forehead and a star on prince's chin		a grand young prince with a moon obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	stand	past	boy			there		long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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