The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 49

So he had carefully pounded them into a powder, and divided the powder up into small doses, which were to be put on the tongue and swallowed at once.

Who acts: Tiidu · What happens: pound, divide up, put, swallow · To what, where: summons, powder, small doses, tongue

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu), 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	_	5 pounded	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pounded	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pounded	aux
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	5 pounded	advmod
5	pounded	pound	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pounded	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 powder	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 powder	det
9	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pounded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 divided	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 divided	cc
12	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pounded	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 powder	det
14	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 divided	obj
15	up	up	ADV	_	12 divided	advmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 doses	case
17	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 doses	amod
18	doses	dose	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 divided	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 were	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 were	nsubj
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 doses	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	24 put	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 put	aux:pass
24	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 were	advcl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 tongue	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 tongue	det
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 put	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swallowed	cc
29	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 put	conj
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 once	case
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	29 swallowed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pound	past · perfect	Tiidu	summons = summon	a powder	carefully property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into powder=Product
2	divide up	past		the powder	small doses		vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=Theme
3	put	to-infinitive · passive			the tongue		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: on tongue=Destination
4	swallow	participle					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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