The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 27

The man enjoyed his bath, slept soundly, and set off early next morning, taking what he believed to be the sack the crane had given him.

Who acts: man, sack · What happens: enjoy, sleep, set off, take, believe, be · To what, where: bath, sack, crane, man · 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoyed	nsubj
3	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bath	nmod:poss
5	bath	bath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 enjoyed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 slept	punct
7	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 enjoyed	conj
8	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	7 slept	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 set	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 set	cc
11	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 enjoyed	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 set	compound:prt
13	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 set	advmod
14	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 morning	amod
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 set	obl:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taking	punct
17	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 set	advcl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 believed	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 believed	nsubj
20	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taking	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	24 sack	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 sack	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sack	det
24	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 believed	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 crane	det
26	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 given	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 given	aux
28	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 sack	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 given	iobj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 enjoyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	enjoy	past	the man	man's bath				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bath=Stimulus
2	sleep	past	the man not said here				soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	set off	infinitive	the man not said here			morning	early property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	gerund	the man not said here					vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
5	believe	past	man					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
6	is a	to-infinitive		the sack				tree rules
7	give	past · perfect · passive	the sack not said here	the crane	man			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme

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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