English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 112

And it went on singing till the ogre fell asleep, and commenced to snore like thunder.

Who acts: harp, ogre · What happens: go, fall, commence, snore · To what, where: singing

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 (harp, ogre), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 singing	case
5	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 fell	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ogre	det
8	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	nsubj
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	advcl
10	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fell	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 commenced	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 commenced	cc
13	commenced	commence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 snore	mark
15	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 commenced	xcomp
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 thunder	case
17	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 snore	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	harp	singing		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on singing=Location
2	fall	past	the ogre		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	commence	participle	harp not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	snore	to-infinitive	harp not said here		like thunder	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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