English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 124
But Jack jumped down and got hold of the axe and gave a chop at the beanstalk which cut it half in two.
Who acts: Jack, beanstalk · What happens: jump down, get, give, cut, hold · To what, where: hold, chop, beanstalk, axe, two
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, 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 | _ | 3 jumped | cc |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 jumped | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 7 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 axe | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 axe | det |
| 10 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hold | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 jumped | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 chop | det |
| 14 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 beanstalk | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beanstalk | det |
| 17 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 cut | nsubj |
| 19 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 beanstalk | acl:relcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 cut | obj |
| 21 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 19 cut | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 two | case |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 cut | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump down | past | Jack | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | Jack not said here | hold of the axe | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Jack not said here | a chop | the beanstalk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent chop=Theme at beanstalk=Asset | |||
| 4 | cut | past | the beanstalk | axe | two | half property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||
| 5 | hold | the axe | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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