English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 125
The ogre felt the beanstalk shake and quiver so he stopped to see what was the matter.
Who acts: ogre · What happens: feel, stop, see, be · To what, where: beanstalk shake, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ogre | det |
| 2 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shake | det |
| 5 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shake | compound |
| 6 | shake | shake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 quiver | cc |
| 8 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shake | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 stopped | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stopped | nsubj |
| 11 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 stopped | xcomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the ogre | the beanstalk shake and quiver | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shake=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | ogre | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | ogre not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the matter | 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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