Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 16

As soon as he had caused the bone to fall, he got out of the lion's mouth, striking the stick with his beak so that it fell out, and then settled on a branch.

Who acts: bone, stick · What happens: cause, fall, get out, strike, fall out, settle · To what, where: bone, stick

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bone, stick), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 caused	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 caused	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 caused	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caused	aux
6	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bone	det
8	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 caused	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fall	mark
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bone	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 caused	parataxis
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 mouth	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lion	det
17	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mouth	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lion	case
19	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 got	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 striking	punct
21	striking	strike	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 got	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stick	det
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 striking	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 beak	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 beak	nmod:poss
26	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stick	nmod
27	so	so	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 fell	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fell	nsubj
30	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 striking	advcl
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 fell	compound:prt
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 settled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 settled	cc
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 settled	advmod
35	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 got	conj
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 branch	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 branch	det
38	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 settled	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 caused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	past · perfect	bone	the bone		soon property	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition bone=Patient
2	fall	to-infinitive	bone not said here	the bone not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get out	past	bone			of the lion's mouth; out property	vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of mouth=Source
4	strike	gerund	bone not said here	the stick		with bone's beak	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stick=Patient with beak=Instrument
5	fall out	past	stick				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	settle	past	bone not said here		then	on a branch	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on branch=Topic

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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