The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 42

And instantly two pretty lads sprang out of the sack, brought in oak tables, on which they laid silken covers, and spread all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks on them.

Who acts: two pretty lads, lads · What happens: spring out, bring, lay, spread, refresh, sort · To what, where: sack, oak tables, silken covers, sorts, drinks, delicious dishes

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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 sprang	cc
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	3 two	advmod
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 lads	nummod
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lads	amod
5	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sprang	nsubj
6	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 sack	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 sack	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sack	det
10	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sprang	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 brought	punct
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sack	acl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 tables	case
14	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tables	compound
15	tables	table	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 laid	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laid	nsubj
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tables	conj
21	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 covers	amod
22	covers	cover	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 laid	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 spread	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 spread	cc
25	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sprang	conj
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sorts	det
27	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 spread	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 dishes	case
29	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 dishes	amod
30	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sorts	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 refreshing	cc
32	refreshing	refresh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 dishes	conj
33	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 refreshing	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 refreshing	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring out	past	two pretty lads	the sack			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sack=Theme
2	bring	participle		the sack not said here	oak tables		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	lads = lad	silken covers	oak tables		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cover=Theme on which=Destination
4	spread	past	two pretty lads not said here	all sorts of delicious dishes			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sort=Theme
5	refresh	gerund	two pretty lads not said here	drinks		on lads = lad	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus drink=Experiencer
6	sort			delicious dishes			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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