The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 16
Then the crane said to him, ‘Now take this sack to your wife.’
Who acts: crane · What happens: say, take · To what, where: man, sack, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane), 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 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 sack | det |
| 12 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 wife | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crane | man | then | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | take | infinitive | this sack | your wife | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme to wife=Destination |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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