The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 34
But not a soul came out of the sack.
Who acts: soul · What happens: not come 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 (soul), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 soul | det |
| 4 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing 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 came | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come out | past | a soul | the sack | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient sack=Result |
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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