English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 110
So she brought it and put it on the table before him.
Who acts: wife · What happens: bring, put · To what, where: harp, table
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 (wife), 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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 put | cc |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 brought | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 table | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 table | det |
| 10 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | wife | harp | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | infinitive | wife not said here | harp | the table | before ogre | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on table=Destination |
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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