The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 9

Jack wondered very much that he had never heard of or seen this castle before; but when he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock on which it stood as if it were in another land.

Who acts: Jack, perpendicular rock, castle · What happens: wonder, not hear, see, reflect, separate, stand · To what, where: castle, perpendicular rock

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, perpendicular rock, castle), 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 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 wondered	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 heard	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 heard	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 heard	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 heard	advmod
9	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wondered	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 heard	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 seen	cc
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 heard	conj
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 castle	det
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
15	before	before	ADV	_	12 seen	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 saw	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 reflected	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reflected	nsubj
20	reflected	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 saw	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 subject	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 subject	det
23	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reflected	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reflected	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 saw	nsubj
26	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 separated	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 separated	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 separated	aux:pass
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 separated	advmod
32	separated	separate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 saw	advcl
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 village	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 village	det
35	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 separated	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	39 rock	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 rock	det
38	perpendicular	perpendicular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 rock	amod
39	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 separated	obl
40	on	on	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 stood	obl
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 stood	nsubj
43	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 rock	acl
44	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	50 land	case
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	44 as	fixed
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 land	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 land	cop
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 land	case
49	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	50 land	det
50	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 stood	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Jack				vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not hear	past · perfect	Jack				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	see	participle	Jack not said here	this castle		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus
4	reflect	past	Jack			on the subject	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on subject=Topic
5	see	past	Jack				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	separate	past · passive	the perpendicular rock	castle		from the village	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient from village=Co-Patient
7	stand	past	castle		the perpendicular rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location
8	is	past	castle			as another land	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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