The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 5
Jack felt a little tired, and thought for a moment that he would go back again; but he was a very persevering boy, and he knew that the way to succeed in anything is not to give up.
Who acts: Jack, way · What happens: feel, think, go back, persevere, be, know · To what, where: persevering boy, anything · 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, way), 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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tired | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 moment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 boy | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 boy | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 boy | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 boy | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 boy | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 persevering | advmod |
| 24 | persevering | persevere | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 boy | amod |
| 25 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 felt | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 knew | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 felt | parataxis |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 give | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 give | nsubj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 succeed | mark |
| 34 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 way | acl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 anything | case |
| 36 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 succeed | obl |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 give | cop |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 give | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 give | mark |
| 40 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 knew | ccomp |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 40 give | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Jack | tired property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Jack not said here | moment | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back | would | Jack | again | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | persevere | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | past | Jack | a persevering boy | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | past | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | succeed | to-infinitive | the way not said here | anything | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in anything=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | not is | present | the way | give property | tree rules |
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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