The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 24

But the cousin quietly made up her mind to steal the sack, so she called to her daughters: ‘Go quickly and heat the bathroom: I am sure our dear guest would like to have a bath before he goes to bed.’

Who acts: cousin, life, I, dear guest, guest · What happens: make up, steal, call, go, heat, be · To what, where: mind, sack, daughters, bathroom, bath, bed · 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 (cousin, life, I, dear guest), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 made	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cousin	det
3	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 made	advmod
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 made	compound:prt
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mind	nmod:poss
8	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 steal	mark
10	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sack	det
12	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 steal	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 called	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	nsubj
16	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 daughters	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 daughters	nmod:poss
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 called	obl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 Go	punct
22	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 made	parataxis
23	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	22 Go	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heat	cc
25	heat	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Go	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bathroom	det
27	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heat	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 sure	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 sure	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 sure	cop
31	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	conj
32	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 guest	nmod:poss
33	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 guest	amod
34	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 like	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 like	aux
36	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sure	ccomp
37	to	to	PART	_	38 have	mark
38	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 like	xcomp
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bath	det
40	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 have	obj
41	before	before	SCONJ	_	43 goes	mark
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 goes	nsubj
43	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 have	advcl
44	to	to	ADP	_	45 bed	case
45	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 goes	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct
47	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	make up	past	the cousin	life's mind			quietly property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
2	steal	to-infinitive	the cousin not said here	the sack				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme
3	call	past	life		life's daughters			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient
4	go	infinitive					quickly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	heat	present		the bathroom				vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bathroom=Patient
6	is	present	I				sure property	tree rules
7	like	would	our dear guest					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	our dear guest not said here	a bath				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bath=Patient
9	go	present	guest			bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
10	mind		life					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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