The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 29
But you showed an inquiring mind, and great courage and enterprise, therefore you deserve to rise; and when you mounted the Beanstalk you climbed the Ladder of Fortune.’
Who acts: you · What happens: show, inquire, deserve, rise, mount, climb · To what, where: inquiring mind, Beanstalk, Ladder
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 (you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 showed | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mind | det |
| 5 | inquiring | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mind | amod |
| 6 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 courage | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 courage | cc |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 courage | amod |
| 10 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 enterprise | cc |
| 12 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 courage | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 deserve | punct |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 16 deserve | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 deserve | nsubj |
| 16 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 rise | mark |
| 18 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 deserve | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 climbed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 climbed | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 mounted | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 mounted | nsubj |
| 23 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 climbed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Beanstalk | det |
| 25 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 mounted | obj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 climbed | nsubj |
| 27 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 showed | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Ladder | det |
| 29 | Ladder | Ladder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 climbed | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Fortune | case |
| 31 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Ladder | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | you | a inquiring mind | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | gerund | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | deserve | present | you | therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | rise | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | mount | past | you | the Beanstalk | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beanstalk=Patient | ||||
| 6 | climb | past | you | the Ladder of Fortune | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ladder=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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