English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 123

And his mother came rushing out with the axe in her hand, but when she came to the beanstalk she stood stock still with fright for there she saw the ogre just coming down below the clouds.

Who acts: mother, ogre · What happens: come, rush out, stand, see, come down · To what, where: beanstalk, stock, ogre, clouds

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 (mother, ogre), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 came	xcomp
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 rushing	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 axe	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 axe	det
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rushing	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 hand	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hand	nmod:poss
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 axe	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 stood	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 came	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stood	advcl
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 beanstalk	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beanstalk	det
20	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
23	stock	stock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obj
24	still	still	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 fright	case
26	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	obl
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 saw	mark
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 saw	advmod
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 saw	nsubj
30	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stood	advcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ogre	det
32	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 saw	obj
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 coming	advmod
34	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	32 ogre	acl
35	down	down	ADV	_	34 coming	advmod
36	below	below	ADP	_	38 clouds	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 clouds	det
38	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 coming	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Jack's mother					tree rules
2	rush out	gerund	Jack's mother not said here				with the axe in mother's hand	vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with axe=Eventuality
3	come	past	mother		the beanstalk			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to beanstalk=Initial_Location
4	stand	past	mother	stock		still	with fright	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus
5	see	past	mother	the ogre	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogre=Stimulus
6	come down	gerund	the ogre not said here		the clouds		down property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below cloud=Location

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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