English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 1
There was once upon a time a poor widow who had an only son named Jack, and a cow named Milky-white.
Who acts: poor widow, only son · What happens: be, have, name · To what, where: only son, Jack, cow
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and 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 (poor widow, only son), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 widow | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 widow | amod |
| 9 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | appos |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 widow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 13 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 15 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 son | acl |
| 16 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 named | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 named | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 named | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cow | det |
| 20 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 named | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 22 | Milky | milky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 white | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Milky | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 named | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | a poor widow | a only son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a only son not said here | Jack | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jack=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | participle · passive | a cow | white property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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