English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 118
Well, the ogre didn't like trusting himself to such a ladder, and he stood and waited, so Jack got another start.
Who acts: ogre, Jack · What happens: not like, trust, stand, wait, get · To what, where: ogre, ladder, start
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 like | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ogre | det |
| 4 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 like | advmod |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 like | xcomp |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 trusting | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ladder | case |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 ladder | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ladder | det |
| 13 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trusting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 waited | cc |
| 19 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 got | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 got | advmod |
| 22 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 got | nsubj |
| 23 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stood | conj |
| 24 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 start | det |
| 25 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 got | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not like | past · do-support | the ogre | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trust not said to happen | gerund | the ogre not said here | ogre | such ladder | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to ladder=Recipient | |||
| 3 | stand | past | ogre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wait | past | ogre not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get | past | Jack | another start | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus |
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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