The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 43

‘Take this sack,’ said the crane.

What happens: take, say · To what, where: sack, crane · 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: 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 Take	punct
2	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Take	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Take	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crane	det
9	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive		this sack					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the crane					tree rules

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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