The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 93

And at once the two rogues with their big sticks crept out of the sack, and began to belabour her as they sang:

Who acts: two rogues, rogues · What happens: creep out, begin, belabour, sing · To what, where: sack, Meantime

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 rogues, rogues), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	11 crept	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 crept	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rogues	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 rogues	nummod
6	rogues	rogue	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crept	nsubj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 sticks	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sticks	nmod:poss
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sticks	amod
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 rogues	nmod
11	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	out	out	ADP	_	15 sack	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 sack	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sack	det
15	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 crept	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crept	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 belabour	mark
20	belabour	belabour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 belabour	obj
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 sang	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sang	nsubj
24	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 belabour	advcl
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	creep out	past	the two rogues with rogues's big sticks	the sack	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location sack=Theme
2	begin	past	the two rogues with rogues's big sticks not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	belabour	to-infinitive	the two rogues with rogues's big sticks not said here	Meantime	tree rules
4	sing speech: express	past	rogues = rogue		vn sound_emission-43.2 «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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