The Red Fairy Book, ‘master! Master!’, sentence 7

This accident gave Jack time to get on the Beanstalk and hasten down it; but just as he reached their own garden he beheld the Giant descending after him.

Who acts: accident, Jack · What happens: give, get, hasten down, reach, behold, descend · To what, where: Beanstalk, accident, own garden

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘master! Master!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (accident, 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 accident	det
2	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 time	compound
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gave	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Beanstalk	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Beanstalk	det
10	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 get	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hasten	cc
12	hasten	hasten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	conj
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 hasten	compound:prt
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hasten	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 reached	cc
17	just	just	ADV	_	20 reached	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 garden	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 garden	amod
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beheld	nsubj
25	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reached	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Giant	det
27	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beheld	xcomp
28	descending	descend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 Giant	advcl
29	after	after	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 descending	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	this accident			time		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	get	to-infinitive	this accident not said here		the Beanstalk			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on beanstalk=Source
3	hasten down	infinitive	this accident not said here	accident				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	reach	past	Jack	master's own garden				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent garden=Theme
5	behold	past	Jack				giant property	vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
6	descend	gerund	Jack not said here			after Jack		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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