English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 127
Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.
Who acts: ogre, beanstalk · What happens: fall down, break, come, topple, crown · To what, where: crown
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fell | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogre | det |
| 3 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 fell | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 broke | cc |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 crown | nmod:poss |
| 9 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beanstalk | det |
| 13 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 15 | toppling | topple | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 16 | after | after | ADV | _ | 15 toppling | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | the ogre | then | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | break | past | the ogre not said here | ogre's crown | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the beanstalk | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | topple | gerund | the beanstalk not said here | after property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | crown | ogre | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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