The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 53

He hung the sack up on a nail, and said: ‘Please have the bathroom heated, cousin.’

Who acts: man, bathroom · What happens: hang up, say, have, heat · To what, where: sack, nail, cousin · 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, bathroom), 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 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sack	det
4	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hung	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 hung	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 nail	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 nail	det
8	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hung	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hung	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
14	Please	please	INTJ	_	15 have	discourse
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bathroom	det
17	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 heated	nsubj
18	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 have	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cousin	punct
20	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hang up	past	man	the sack	a nail	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on nail=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	man not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	infinitive		cousin		tree rules
4	heat	past	the bathroom			vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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