The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 93

He cut up the rest of the body into little bits and strewed them to the four winds.

Who acts: eye · What happens: cut up, strew · To what, where: rest, little bits, bits

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cut	nsubj
2	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 cut	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rest	det
5	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 body	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 body	det
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	nmod
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 bits	case
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bits	amod
11	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cut	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 strewed	cc
13	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cut	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strewed	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	18 winds	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 winds	det
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 winds	nummod
18	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 strewed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut up	past	eye	the rest of the body		little bits			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent rest=Material into bit=Product
2	strew	past	eye not said here	bits = bit				to the four winds	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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