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English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 117

When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life.

Who acts: ogre, Jack · What happens: get, not be, see, disappear, get up, climb down · To what, where: twenty yards, road · 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 (ogre, 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

advmodnsubjadvclcasedetobldetnsubjcopadvmodadvmodfixednummodobjadvmodadvmodadvmodnsubjnsubjccompoblpunctccadvmodnsubjconjcompound:prtcasedetoblcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclnsubjadvmodccompcompound:prtcaseamodoblpunctrootWhenADVhePRONgotVERBtoADPtheDETbeanstalkNOUNtheDETogreNOUNwasAUXnotPARTmoreADJthanADPtwentyNUMyardsNOUNawayADVwhenADVsuddenlyADVhePRONsawVERBJackPROPNdisappearVERBlikeADP,PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVhePRONgotVERBupADPtoADPtheDETendNOUNofADPtheDETroadNOUNhePRONsawVERBJackPROPNunderneathADVclimbingVERBdownADPforADPdearADJlifeNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int3 gotadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 gotnsubj
3gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 sawadvcl
4totoADP_6 beanstalkcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 beanstalkdet
6beanstalkbeanstalkNOUNNumber=Sing3 gotobl
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 ogredet
8ogreogreNOUNNumber=Sing14 yardsnsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 yardscop
10notnotPARTPolarity=Neg14 yardsadvmod
11moremoreADJDegree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV13 twentyadvmod
12thanthanADP_11 morefixed
13twentytwentyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card14 yardsnummod
14yardsyardNOUNNumber=Plur3 gotobj
15awayawayADV_14 yardsadvmod
16whenwhenADVPronType=Int17 suddenlyadvmod
17suddenlysuddenlyADV_3 gotadvmod
18hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs19 sawnsubj
19sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
20JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing21 disappearnsubj
21disappeardisappearVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 sawccomp
22likelikeADP_21 disappearobl
23,,PUNCT_27 gotpunct
24andandCCONJ_27 gotcc
25whenwhenADVPronType=Int27 gotadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 gotnsubj
27gotgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 sawconj
28upupADP_27 gotcompound:prt
29totoADP_31 endcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 enddet
31endendNOUNNumber=Sing27 gotobl
32ofofADP_34 roadcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 roaddet
34roadroadNOUNNumber=Sing31 endnmod
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 sawnsubj
36sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 roadacl:relcl
37JackJackPROPNNumber=Sing39 climbingnsubj
38underneathunderneathADV_39 climbingadvmod
39climbingclimbVERBVerbForm=Ger36 sawccomp
40downdownADP_39 climbingcompound:prt
41forforADP_43 lifecase
42deardearADJDegree=Pos43 lifeamod
43lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing39 climbingobl
44..PUNCT_19 sawpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1getpastogreto the beanstalk result; suddenly propertyvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to beanstalk=Result
2not is apastthe ogretwenty yardsaway propertytree rules
3seepastogrevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4disappearpresentJackvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5get uppastJackto the end of the roadvn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result
6seepastJackthe road not said heretree rules
7climb downgerundJackfor dear life; underneath propertyvn run-51.3.2 «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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