English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 121
By this time Jack had climbed down and climbed down and climbed down till he was very nearly home.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: climb down, be
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obl |
| 4 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | aux |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 climbed | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 climbed | cc |
| 9 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | conj |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 climbed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 climbed | cc |
| 12 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 climbed | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 climbed | advmod |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 home | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 home | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 home | cop |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 nearly | advmod |
| 18 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 19 home | advmod |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 climbed | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past · perfect | Jack | time | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb down | past | Jack not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | climb down | past | Jack not said here | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Jack | home, nearly property | tree rules |
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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