The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 25
When the man was safe in the bathroom she told her daughters to make a sack exactly like his, as quickly as possible.
Who acts: man, life · What happens: be, tell, make · To what, where: daughters, bathroom, sack · 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 (man, life), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 5 safe | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safe | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | cop |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 bathroom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bathroom | det |
| 8 | bathroom | bathroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 safe | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sack | det |
| 16 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 19 his | advmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 his | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 make | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 quickly | punct |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 make | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 possible | mark |
| 24 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 quickly | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the man | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | life | life's daughters | the bathroom | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | a sack | quickly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset sack=Beneficiary his=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 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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