The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 71

When everything was put in and there was not yet enough, he said, ‘I will make an end of this; it is easy to fasten a sack when it is not full.’

Who acts: man, I, sack · What happens: put in, not be, say, make, be, fasten · To what, where: everything, end, sack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, 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 (man, I, sack), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 put	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux:pass
4	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	advcl
5	in	in	ADP	_	4 put	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 was	advmod
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	8 was	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 make	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 make	aux
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 make	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 this	case
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 end	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 easy	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 easy	expl
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 easy	cop
27	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 make	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 fasten	mark
29	fasten	fasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 easy	csubj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 sack	det
31	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fasten	obj
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	36 full	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 full	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 full	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 full	advmod
36	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 fasten	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put in	past · passive		everything				vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	not be	past			there	yet	enough property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	future	I	a end of this				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Product
5	is	present	I not said here				easy property	tree rules
6	fasten	to-infinitive		a sack				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient
7	not is	present	sack				full property	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 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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