The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 44
Jack determined at once to attempt the adventure; so he advanced, and blew the horn which hung at the castle portal.
Who acts: Jack, horn · What happens: determine, attempt, advance, blow, hang · To what, where: adventure, horn, castle portal
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, horn), 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 | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 determined | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 attempt | mark |
| 6 | attempt | attempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 adventure | det |
| 8 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attempt | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 advanced | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 advanced | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 advanced | nsubj |
| 12 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 determined | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 blew | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 blew | cc |
| 15 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 advanced | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horn | det |
| 17 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 blew | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hung | nsubj |
| 19 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 horn | acl:relcl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 portal | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 portal | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 portal | compound |
| 23 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hung | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Jack | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | attempt | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the adventure | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | advance | past | Jack | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | blow | past | Jack not said here | the horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hang | past | the horn | the castle portal | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at portal=Location |
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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