English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 42
And what do you think he saw? why, the beans his mother had thrown out of the window into the garden, had sprung up into a big beanstalk which went up and up and up till it reached the sky.
Who acts: you, Jack, big beanstalk, window · What happens: think, see, throw, spring up, go up, reach · To what, where: mother, window, big beanstalk, sky · 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 (you, Jack, big beanstalk, window), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 think | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 why | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 thrown | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 why | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beans | det |
| 12 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 why | nsubj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 thrown | aux |
| 16 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 garden | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 garden | det |
| 23 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thrown | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sprung | punct |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 sprung | aux |
| 26 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 saw | conj |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 sprung | compound:prt |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 beanstalk | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 beanstalk | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 beanstalk | amod |
| 31 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sprung | obl |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beanstalk | acl:relcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADV | _ | 36 up | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 up | cc |
| 36 | up | up | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 up | cc |
| 38 | up | up | ADV | _ | 36 up | conj |
| 39 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 41 reached | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 reached | nsubj |
| 41 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 up | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sky | det |
| 43 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 reached | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Jack | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | throw | past · perfect · passive | Jack's mother | the window | into the garden | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme out window=Initial_Location into garden=Destination | |||
| 4 | spring up | past · perfect | Jack not said here | a big beanstalk | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go up | past | a big beanstalk | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | reach | past | window | the sky | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sky=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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