The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 16

Then the Hunter did as the old woman had told him: he cut open the bird, found its heart, swallowed it, and took the cloak home with him.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: do, tell, cut, open, find, swallow · To what, where: old woman, Hunter, bird, heart, cloak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, 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 (Hunter), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 did	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hunter	det
3	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj:pass
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 cut	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cut	nsubj
14	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
15	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cut	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 open	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heart	nmod:poss
21	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swallowed	punct
23	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 swallowed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 took	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cut	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cloak	det
29	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 took	obj
30	home	home	ADV	_	27 took	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the Hunter			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the old woman	Hunter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
3	cut	past	Hunter					tree rules
4	open	infinitive	Hunter not said here	the bird				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
5	find	past	Hunter not said here	cloak's heart				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Topic
6	swallow	past	Hunter not said here	cloak				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	take	past	Hunter not said here	the cloak			with Hunter; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=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: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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