The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 45

He had a long way to walk, and as he presently got hungry, he said to the sack, as the crane had taught him:

Who acts: man · What happens: have, walk, get, say, teach · To what, where: long way, 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 walk	mark
7	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
12	presently	presently	ADV	_	13 got	advmod
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
14	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 got	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sack	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sack	det
20	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 taught	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 taught	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 crane	det
24	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 taught	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 taught	aux
26	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 said	ccomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 taught	obj
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a long way			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
2	walk	to-infinitive	man not said here	a long way not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	man			hungry, presently property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert	past	man			to the sack	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to sack=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		the crane	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic

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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