The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 52
Then the man shouldered the sack, and went off straight to his cousin’s house.
Who acts: man · What happens: shoulder, go off · 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 (man), 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 | 4 shouldered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouldered | nsubj |
| 4 | shouldered | shoulder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shouldered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shouldered | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 went | compound:prt |
| 11 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 16 house | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 cousin | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shouldered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoulder | past | the man | the sack | then | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | go off | past | the man not said here | to man's cousin's house | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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