English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 116
Jack ran as fast as he could, and the ogre came rushing after, and would soon have caught him only Jack had a start and dodged him a bit and knew where he was going.
Who acts: Jack, ogre · What happens: run, come, rush, catch, have, dodge · To what, where: Jack, start · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 fast | advmod |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 ran | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 could | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 could | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fast | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ogre | det |
| 11 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 13 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 came | xcomp |
| 14 | after | after | ADV | _ | 13 rushing | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 caught | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caught | cc |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 caught | aux |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 caught | advmod |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 caught | aux |
| 20 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 ran | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caught | obj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 had | advmod |
| 23 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 had | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 caught | advcl |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 start | det |
| 26 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 dodged | cc |
| 28 | dodged | dodge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 dodged | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 bit | det |
| 31 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dodged | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 knew | cc |
| 33 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 dodged | conj |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 going | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 going | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 going | aux |
| 37 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 knew | ccomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Jack | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the ogre | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rush | gerund | the ogre not said here | after property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | would · perfect | Jack | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | past | Jack | a start | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Patient | ||||
| 6 | dodge | past | Jack not said here | Jack | a bit obl:unmarked | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=Location | |||
| 7 | know | past | Jack not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | go | past · progressive | ogre | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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