The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 1

So Jack called his mother, and they both gazed in silent wonder at the Beanstalk, which was not only of great height, but was thick enough to bear Jack’s weight.

Who acts: Jack, they, Beanstalk · What happens: call, gaze, not be, be, bear · To what, where: mother, weight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, they, Beanstalk), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gazed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gazed	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gazed	nsubj
9	both	both	ADV	_	10 gazed	advmod
10	gazed	gaze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wonder	case
12	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wonder	amod
13	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gazed	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 Beanstalk	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Beanstalk	det
16	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gazed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 height	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 height	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 height	cop
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 height	advmod
21	only	only	ADV	_	24 height	advmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 height	case
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 height	amod
24	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Beanstalk	appos
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thick	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 thick	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 thick	cop
28	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	parataxis
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 thick	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bear	mark
31	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 thick	advcl
32	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 weight	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 Jack	case
34	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bear	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Jack		Jack's mother		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient
2	gaze	past	they			at the Beanstalk; in silent wonder; both property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in wonder=Theme
3	not is	past	the Beanstalk			of great height	tree rules
4	is	past				enough, thick property	tree rules
5	bear	to-infinitive		Jack's weight			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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