English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 119

But just then the harp cried out: “Master! master!” and the ogre swung himself down on to the beanstalk which shook with his weight.

Who acts: harp, ogre, beanstalk · What happens: cry out, swing down, shake · To what, where: Master, ogre, beanstalk

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, beanstalk), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 cried	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cried	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 harp	det
5	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 cried	compound:prt
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Master	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Master	punct
10	Master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	obl
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
12	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Master	appos
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 master	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Master	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swung	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ogre	det
17	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swung	nsubj
18	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 swung	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	18 swung	compound:prt
21	on	on	ADV	_	18 swung	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 beanstalk	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 beanstalk	det
24	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swung	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 shook	nsubj
26	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 beanstalk	acl:relcl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 weight	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 weight	nmod:poss
29	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shook	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	past	the harp	Master		then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swing down	past	the ogre	ogre	the beanstalk			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to beanstalk=Trajectory
3	shake	past	the beanstalk				with ogre's weight	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with weight=Co-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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