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description: 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. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 49

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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.

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:12:49
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	pounded	pound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	powder	powder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	doses	dose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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