The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 47
And instantly two rough men with thick sticks crept out of the bag and began to beat him well, crying as they did so:
Who acts: two rough men, sticks · What happens: creep out, begin, beat, cry, do · To what, where: bag, man
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 rough men, sticks), 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 | _ | 9 crept | cc |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 two | advmod |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 men | nummod |
| 4 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 crept | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sticks | case |
| 7 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sticks | amod |
| 8 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 men | nmod |
| 9 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bag | det |
| 13 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crept | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crept | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 beat | mark |
| 17 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beat | obj |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 beat | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 crying | punct |
| 21 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 beat | advcl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 did | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 did | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 crying | ccomp |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 did | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | two rough men with thick sticks | the bag | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | two rough men with thick sticks not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | two rough men with thick sticks not said here | man | well property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | |||
| 4 | cry speech: express | gerund | two rough men with thick sticks not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | do | past | sticks = stick | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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