The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 9
Said the crane: ‘You had better come with me to my house,’ and so they went to the crane’s house.
Who acts: crane, You, nets · What happens: say, have, come, go · To what, where: house · 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 (crane, You, nets), 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 had | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 house | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 went | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 crane | det |
| 23 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 crane | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crane | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | past | You | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | You not said here | my house | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | go | past | nets = net | the crane's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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