The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 1

Jack’s mother shrank back, and it was well she did so, for just as the Giant took hold of the last branch of the Beanstalk, Jack cut the stem quite through and darted from the spot.

Who acts: mother, it, Jack · What happens: shrink back, be, take, cut, dart, hold · To what, where: hold, stem, spot, last branch

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, it, 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	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mother	nmod:poss
2	’s	's	PART	_	1 Jack	case
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shrank	nsubj
4	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 shrank	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 did	cop
10	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 did	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrank	parataxis
13	so	so	ADV	_	12 did	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 Giant	mark
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 Giant	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 Giant	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Giant	det
19	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 took	advcl
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 did	conj
21	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 branch	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 branch	det
24	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 branch	amod
25	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hold	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 Beanstalk	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Beanstalk	det
28	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 branch	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cut	punct
30	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cut	nsubj
31	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 took	parataxis
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 stem	det
33	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obj
34	quite	quite	ADV	_	35 through	advmod
35	through	through	ADV	_	31 cut	advmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 darted	cc
37	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 cut	conj
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 spot	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 spot	det
40	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 darted	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shrank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrink back	past	Jack's mother				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	past	it			do, well property	tree rules
3	take	past		hold of the last branch of the Beanstalk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
4	cut	past	Jack	the stem		through property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stem=Product
5	dart	participle	Jack not said here		the spot		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from spot=Trajectory
6	hold			the last branch of the Beanstalk			nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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