The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 13
Instantly two pretty lads sprang out of the sack.
Who acts: two pretty lads · What happens: spring out · To what, where: sack
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 (two pretty lads), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lads | nummod |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lads | amod |
| 4 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sack | det |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | two pretty lads | the sack | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sack=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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