The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 7
After climbing higher and higher, till he grew afraid to look down for fear he should be giddy, Jack at last reached the top of the Beanstalk, and found himself in a beautiful country, finely wooded, with beautiful meadows covered with sheep.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: climb, grow, look down, be, reach, find · To what, where: fear, top, Jack, beautiful country, beautiful meadows
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), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 climbing | mark |
| 2 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 climbing | xcomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 higher | cc |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 higher | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 9 grew | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 look | mark |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 afraid | xcomp |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 look | compound:prt |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 look | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 giddy | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 giddy | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 giddy | cop |
| 19 | giddy | giddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fear | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 21 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 last | case |
| 23 | last | Last | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Jack | nmod |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 top | det |
| 26 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Beanstalk | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Beanstalk | det |
| 29 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 top | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 found | cc |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 found | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 36 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 country | amod |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 found | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wooded | punct |
| 39 | finely | finely | ADV | _ | 40 wooded | advmod |
| 40 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 found | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 meadows | punct |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 meadows | case |
| 43 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 meadows | amod |
| 44 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 wooded | obl |
| 45 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 meadows | acl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 sheep | case |
| 47 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 covered | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | gerund | Jack not said here | high property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Jack | afraid property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look down | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | for fear | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fear=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | should | Jack | fear not said here | giddy property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | reach | past | Jack at last | the top of the Beanstalk | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past | Jack not said here | Jack | a beautiful country | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | |||
| 7 | wood | participle | Jack not said here | with beautiful meadows; finely property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | cover | participle | beautiful meadows not said here | with sheep | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sheep=Theme |
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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