The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 54

The cousin heated the bathroom, and the man went into it, but he neither washed nor rubbed himself, he just sat there and waited.

Who acts: cousin, man · What happens: heat, go, wash, rub, sit, wait · To what, where: bathroom, cousin, man

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 (cousin, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cousin	det
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heated	nsubj
3	heated	heat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bathroom	det
5	bathroom	bathroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heated	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 man	det
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heated	conj
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 washed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 washed	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 washed	nsubj
16	neither	neither	ADV	_	17 washed	advmod
17	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heated	conj
18	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	19 rubbed	cc
19	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 washed	conj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 rubbed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sat	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sat	nsubj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 sat	advmod
24	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heated	parataxis
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 sat	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 waited	cc
27	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sat	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heat	past	the cousin	the bathroom			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bathroom=Patient
2	go	past	the man		cousin		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial_Location
3	wash	past	man			neither property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rub	past	man not said here	man			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
5	sit	past	man		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	past	man not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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