English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 44
The beanstalk grew up quite close past Jack's window, so all he had to do was to open it and give a jump on to the beanstalk which was made like a big plaited ladder.
Who acts: beanstalk, all · What happens: grow up, have, do, be, give, make · To what, where: jump, beanstalk
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 (beanstalk, all), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 beanstalk | det |
| 2 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 close | advmod |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | past | past | ADP | _ | 10 window | case |
| 8 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 window | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Jack | case |
| 10 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 all | mark |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 open | nsubj:outer |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 do | mark |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 had | xcomp |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 open | cop |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 open | mark |
| 20 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grew | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 open | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 give | cc |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 open | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jump | det |
| 25 | jump | jump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 23 give | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 beanstalk | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 beanstalk | det |
| 29 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 give | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 made | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 beanstalk | acl:relcl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 ladder | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ladder | det |
| 35 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ladder | amod |
| 36 | plaited | plait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 ladder | amod |
| 37 | ladder | ladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | the beanstalk | close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | beanstalk | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | beanstalk not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | all not said here | a jump | the beanstalk | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jump=Theme to beanstalk=Recipient | |||
| 6 | make | past · passive | the beanstalk | like a big plaited ladder | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 7 | plait | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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