The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 72
When he had breakfasted he went out for a walk; and then the Giantess opened the door, and made Jack come out to help her.
Who acts: Englishman, Giantess, Jack · What happens: breakfast, go out, open, make, come out, help · To what, where: door, Jack
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 (Englishman, Giantess, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 breakfasted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 breakfasted | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 breakfasted | aux |
| 4 | breakfasted | breakfast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 went | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 walk | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 walk | det |
| 10 | walk | walk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 opened | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opened | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 opened | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Giantess | det |
| 15 | Giantess | Giantess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | nsubj |
| 16 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 door | det |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 opened | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 opened | conj |
| 22 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 23 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 made | xcomp |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 come | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 help | mark |
| 26 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 come | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 help | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breakfast | past · perfect | Englishman | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go out | past | Englishman | for a walk; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the Giantess | the door | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | the Giantess not said here | Jack | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come out | infinitive | Jack not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | help | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | door | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary |
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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