The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 83

The man went into the cottage, hung his sack on a nail, and said, as the crane had taught him:

Who acts: man · What happens: go, hang, say, teach · To what, where: cottage, sack, nail, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hung	punct
8	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sack	nmod:poss
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 nail	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 nail	det
13	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hung	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taught	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 taught	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crane	det
20	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taught	nsubj:pass
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taught	aux
22	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 taught	obj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	the man			the cottage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cottage=Initial_Location
2	hang	past	the man not said here	man's sack		a nail	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sack=Theme on nail=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	the man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	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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