English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 120
Down climbs Jack, and after him climbed the ogre.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: climb · To what, where: Jack, ogre
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 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 2 climbs | advmod |
| 2 | climbs | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 climbs | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 climbed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | cc |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 climbed | mark |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 climbed | nsubj |
| 8 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbs | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ogre | det |
| 10 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 climbed | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 climbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present | Jack | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location jack=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb | past | Jack | the ogre | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location ogre=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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