The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 2
‘I wonder where it ends,’ said Jack to his mother; ‘I think I will climb up and see.’
Who acts: I, weight, Jack · What happens: wonder, end, say, think, climb up, see · To what, where: mother · 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 (I, weight, Jack), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 ends | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 ends | nsubj |
| 6 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | parataxis |
| 10 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonder | conj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 climb | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 climb | aux |
| 20 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 think | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 climb | compound:prt |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 see | cc |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 climb | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | end | present | weight | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jack | Jack's mother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | climb up | future | I | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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