The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 88

When they had done eating, the man carried off the good sack, and put it away in his store-room, but hung the bad sack up on the nail.

Who acts: lads, man, bad · What happens: do, eat, carry off, put away, hang, sack up · To what, where: good sack, sack, store room, nail

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 (lads, man, bad), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 carried	advcl
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 done	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	nsubj
9	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	off	off	ADP	_	13 sack	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sack	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sack	amod
13	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 carried	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	away	away	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	23 room	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 room	nmod:poss
21	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 room	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 store	punct
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hung	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 hung	cc
26	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bad	det
28	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sack	nsubj
29	sack	sack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hung	ccomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 sack	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 nail	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 nail	det
33	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sack	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	lads = lad				tree rules
2	eat	gerund	lads = lad not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	carry off	past	the man	the good sack			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme
4	put away	infinitive	the man not said here	sack	man's store room	away property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in room=Destination
5	hang	past	the man not said here				tree rules
6	sack up	present	the bad		the nail		vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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