English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 126
Then Jack gave another chop with the axe, and the beanstalk was cut in two and began to topple over.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: give, cut, begin, topple over · To what, where: chop, beanstalk, 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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 chop | det |
| 5 | chop | chop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 axe | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cut | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beanstalk | det |
| 12 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | aux:pass |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 two | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 cut | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 cut | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 topple | mark |
| 20 | topple | topple | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 topple | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jack | another chop | then | with the axe | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chop=Theme | ||
| 2 | cut | past · passive | the beanstalk | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | topple over | to-infinitive | over property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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