--- title: The Prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the Magician's right l… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The Prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the Magician's right leg fell off: the Prince pulled off the parrot's left leg, down fell the Magician's left. Who acts: Prince, right leg. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, right leg), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7128:10:77 # text = The Prince pulled off the parrot's right leg, the Magician's right leg fell off: the Prince pulled off the parrot's left leg, down fell the Magician's left. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 off off ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 right right 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 3 conj _ _ 17 off off ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 off off ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 parrot parrot NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 down down ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Magician Magician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 33 's 's PART POS _ 32 case _ _ 34 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull off** | past | the Prince | the parrot's right leg | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | | 2 | **fall off** | past | the Magician's right leg | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **pull off** | past | the Prince | the parrot's left leg | | | | | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Eventuality | | 4 | **fall** | past | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | participle | the Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/78/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/10/)