The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 78
Then the man took both sacks, the good and the bad one, and went away home.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, go away · To what, where: sacks
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 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sacks | det |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 good | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 good | det |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sacks | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 one | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 good | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the man | both sacks | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | go away | past | the man not said here | away, home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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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