English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 113
Then Jack lifted up the copper-lid very quietly and got down like a mouse and crept on hands and knees till he got to the table when he got up and caught hold of the golden harp and dashed with it towards the door.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: lift up, get down, creep, get, get up, catch · To what, where: copper lid, hands, hold, door, golden harp
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | nsubj |
| 3 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lid | det |
| 6 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lid | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 copper | punct |
| 8 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lifted | obj |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 quietly | advmod |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 lifted | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 got | compound:prt |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 mouse | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 mouse | det |
| 16 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 got | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crept | cc |
| 18 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crept | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 knees | cc |
| 22 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hands | conj |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 got | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 got | nsubj |
| 25 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 table | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 table | det |
| 28 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 got | obl |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 got | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 got | nsubj |
| 31 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 got | advcl |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 got | compound:prt |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 caught | cc |
| 34 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 35 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 caught | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 harp | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 harp | det |
| 38 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 harp | amod |
| 39 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hold | nmod |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 dashed | cc |
| 41 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lifted | conj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 dashed | obl |
| 44 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 46 door | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 door | det |
| 46 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dashed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Jack | the copper lid | then | quietly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||
| 2 | get down | past | Jack not said here | like a mouse | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | creep | past | Jack not said here | hands and knees | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hand=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Jack | to the table result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to table=Result | ||||
| 5 | get up | past | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | catch | past | Jack not said here | hold of the golden harp | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 7 | dash | past | Jack not said here | the door | with harp | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards door=Destination | |||
| 8 | hold | the golden harp | 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: «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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