The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 26
Then she changed the two sacks, and hid the man’s sack away.
Who acts: life · What happens: change, hide · To what, where: two sacks, 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 (life), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 changed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 changed | nsubj |
| 3 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sacks | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sacks | nummod |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 changed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hid | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 hid | cc |
| 9 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 changed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sack | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 man | case |
| 13 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hid | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 hid | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past | life | the two sacks | then | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient | |||
| 2 | hide | past | life not said here | the man's sack | away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |
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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