The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 51

All this the master heard and understood, and as soon as morning dawned he ordered all the dogs to be killed excepting the old dog.

Who acts: master · What happens: hear, understand, dawn, order, kill, except · To what, where: dogs, old dog

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 master	det:predet
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 All	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 understood	cc
7	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 dawned	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 dawned	cc
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 soon	advmod
11	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 dawned	advmod
12	as	as	ADP	_	13 morning	case
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dawned	obl
14	dawned	dawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ordered	nsubj
16	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dawned	parataxis
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 dogs	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dogs	det
19	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 ordered	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	22 killed	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 killed	aux:pass
22	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ordered	xcomp
23	excepting	except	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 killed	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dog	det
25	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dog	amod
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 excepting	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	all master					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	understand	past	all master not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	dawn	past	all master not said here			morning	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	order	past	master		all dogs			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient clause=Topic
5	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	master not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
6	except	gerund	master not said here	the old dog				tree rules

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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