The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 74

At last the woman could hold out no longer, and sent him the sack she had stolen.

Who acts: woman · What happens: hold out, send, steal · To what, where: sack, 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 (woman), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 woman	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woman	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 woman	det
4	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obl
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	aux
6	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 hold	compound:prt
8	no	no	ADV	_	9 longer	advmod
9	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 hold	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sent	cc
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hold	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stolen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stolen	aux
18	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 sack	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hold out	could				at the last woman; long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at woman=Location
2	send	past		the sack	man		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination sack=Theme
3	steal	past · perfect	woman	the sack not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=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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