The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 85
Instantly two pretty lads sprang out of the sack, brought in oak tables, laid silken covers on them, and spread them with all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks.
Who acts: two pretty lads, oak tables · What happens: spring out, bring, lay, spread, refresh, sort · To what, where: sack, oak tables, silken covers, lads, delicious dishes
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 pretty lads, oak tables), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 5 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 lads | nummod |
| 3 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lads | amod |
| 4 | lads | lad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sack | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sack | det |
| 9 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 brought | punct |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sack | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tables | case |
| 13 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tables | compound |
| 14 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 laid | punct |
| 16 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 tables | acl |
| 17 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 covers | amod |
| 18 | covers | cover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laid | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 covers | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spread | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spread | cc |
| 23 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sprang | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spread | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 sorts | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sorts | det |
| 27 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spread | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 dishes | case |
| 29 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dishes | amod |
| 30 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sorts | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 drinks | cc |
| 32 | refreshing | refresh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 drinks | amod |
| 33 | drinks | drink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 dishes | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past | two pretty lads | the sack | instantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | participle | the sack not said here | oak tables | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | lay | participle | oak tables not said here | silken covers | on lads = lad | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cover=Theme on they=Destination | |||
| 4 | spread | past | two pretty lads not said here | lads = lad | with all sorts of delicious dishes and refreshing drinks | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with sort=Theme | |||
| 5 | refresh | gerund | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | sort | delicious dishes and refreshing drinks | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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