The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 65

He did all he was told carefully and promptly, and having cut the little bird’s heart out he proceeded to make it into a powder.

Who acts: dwarf · What happens: do, tell, have out, cut, proceed, make · To what, where: all, dwarf, heart, powder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwarf), 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 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 did	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 all	acl:relcl
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 promptly	cc
9	promptly	promptly	ADV	_	7 carefully	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 having	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 having	cc
12	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 did	parataxis
13	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 having	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bird	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bird	amod
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heart	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 bird	case
18	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cut	obj
19	out	out	ADP	_	12 having	compound:prt
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 proceeded	nsubj
21	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 having	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 make	mark
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 proceeded	xcomp
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 powder	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 powder	det
27	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 make	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	dwarf	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		dwarf		carefully property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	have out	gerund					tree rules
4	cut	present		the little bird's heart			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset heart=Product
5	proceed	past	dwarf				vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	make	to-infinitive	dwarf not said here	heart	a powder		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into powder=Product

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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