English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 128

Then Jack showed his mother his golden harp, and what with showing that and selling the golden eggs, Jack and his mother became very rich, and he married a great princess, and they lived happy ever after.

Who acts: Jack, mother, eggs · What happens: show, sell, become, marry, live · To what, where: golden harp, mother, that, golden eggs, great princess

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, mother, eggs), 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 showed	advmod
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 mother	nmod:poss
5	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 harp	nmod:poss
7	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 harp	amod
8	harp	harp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 showed	parataxis
12	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 showing	mark
13	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 what	advcl
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 showing	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 selling	cc
16	selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 showing	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eggs	det
18	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 eggs	amod
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 selling	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Jack	punct
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 what	acl:relcl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 became	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 what	conj
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 rich	advmod
27	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 married	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 married	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 married	nsubj
31	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 princess	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 princess	amod
34	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 married	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 lived	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 lived	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 lived	nsubj
38	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	conj
39	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lived	xcomp
40	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	41 after	advmod
41	after	after	ADV	_	38 lived	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	past	Jack	Jack's golden harp	Jack's mother	then		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient harp=Topic
2	show	gerund	Jack not said here	that				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
3	sell	gerund	Jack not said here	the golden eggs				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
4	become	past	Jack's mother				rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	marry	past	Jack	a great princess				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
6	live	past	eggs = egg				after, happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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