The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 51
The words were hardly out of his mouth, when the two crept back into the sack.
Who acts: words, two · What happens: be, creep back · To what, where: mouth, 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 (words, two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mouth | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | cop |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 mouth | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crept | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 crept | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 two | det |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mouth | conj |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 crept | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 sack | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sack | det |
| 17 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crept | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mouth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the words | man's mouth | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | creep back | past | the two | the sack | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sack=Destination |
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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