The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 39

‘Come back to my house,’ said the crane, and so they went to the crane’s house, and as soon as they got there, what did the crane take down from the wall?

Who acts: fields, crane · What happens: come back, say, go, get, take down · To what, where: house, crane, wall · 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 (fields, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crane	det
11	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 went	cc
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 went	advmod
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 house	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crane	det
19	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 house	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 crane	case
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 got	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 got	cc
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 soon	advmod
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 got	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 got	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 got	nsubj
28	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	conj
29	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 got	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 take	punct
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	35 take	obj
32	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 crane	det
34	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	nsubj
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 got	parataxis
36	down	down	ADP	_	35 take	compound:prt
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 wall	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 wall	det
39	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obl
40	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	infinitive			my house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past		the crane			tree rules
3	go	past	fields = field		the crane's house		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
4	get	past	fields = field		there	soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	take down	past · do-support	the crane		the wall		vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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