The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 4
Jack instantly began to climb, and went up and up on the ladder-like bean till everything he had left behind him—the cottage, the village, and even the tall church tower—looked quite little, and still he could not see the top of the Beanstalk.
Who acts: Jack, tall church tower · What happens: begin, climb, go up, leave, look, not see · To what, where: tall church tower, like bean, little, top
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, tall church tower), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 began | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 began | advmod |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 climb | mark |
| 5 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 up | cc |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 up | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bean | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bean | det |
| 14 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 like | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ladder | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bean | amod |
| 17 | bean | bean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 19 everything | case |
| 19 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 17 bean | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 everything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | obl |
| 25 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 cottage | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 cottage | det |
| 27 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bean | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 village | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 village | det |
| 30 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cottage | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 tower | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 tower | cc |
| 33 | even | even | ADV | _ | 37 tower | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tower | det |
| 35 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 tower | amod |
| 36 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 tower | compound |
| 37 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 38 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 looked | punct |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 tower | acl:relcl |
| 40 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 41 little | advmod |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 see | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 see | cc |
| 44 | still | still | ADV | _ | 48 see | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 see | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 see | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 see | advmod |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 top | det |
| 50 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | obj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 Beanstalk | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Beanstalk | det |
| 53 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 top | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Jack | the tall church tower | instantly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | climb | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go up | past | Jack not said here | the like bean till everything and the cottage and the village | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | Jack | behind him = he | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | ||||
| 5 | look | past | the tall church tower not said here | little | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | not see | could | Jack | the top of the Beanstalk | still | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus |
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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