English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 37
So Jack went upstairs to his little room in the attic, and sad and sorry he was, to be sure, as much for his mother's sake, as for the loss of his supper.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: go, be · To what, where: little room
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 room | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 room | nmod:poss |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 room | amod |
| 8 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 attic | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 attic | det |
| 11 | attic | attic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 room | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sad | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sad | cc |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sorry | cc |
| 16 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sad | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sure | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sure | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 sure | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sure | cop |
| 22 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sad | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 much | punct |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 much | case |
| 25 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 sake | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sake | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 mother | case |
| 30 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 much | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 loss | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 loss | case |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 loss | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 loss | det |
| 35 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 supper | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 supper | nmod:poss |
| 38 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 loss | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Jack | Jack's little room in the attic | as the loss of Jack's supper; upstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | Jack | sure property | 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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