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title: The parrot’s left leg came off, and at once Punchkin’s left leg fell… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: The parrot’s left leg came off, and at once Punchkin’s left leg fell down. Who acts: parrot, left leg. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 89

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The parrot’s left leg came off, and at once Punchkin’s left leg fell down.

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**Who acts:** parrot, left leg · **What happens:** be, leave, come off, fall down · **To what, where:** parrot, leg

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, left leg), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:4:89
# text = The parrot’s left leg came off, and at once Punchkin’s left leg fell down.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	parrot	parrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	16	obl	_	_
12	Punchkin	Punchkin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the parrot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | participle | the parrot *not said here* | leg |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Theme |
| 3 | **come off** | past | the parrot |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fall down** | past | Punchkin's left leg |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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