The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 1
So he climbed the Beanstalk once more, and blew the horn at the Giant’s gate.
Who acts: he · What happens: climb, blow · To what, where: Beanstalk, horn, Giant gate
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Beanstalk | det |
| 5 | Beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 blew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 blew | cc |
| 10 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horn | det |
| 12 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gate | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 15 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gate | amod |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Giant | case |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blew | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | he | the Beanstalk | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location beanstalk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | he not said here | the horn | the Giant gate | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
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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