English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 46
And when he got there he found a long broad road going as straight as a dart.
Who acts: Jack, long broad road · What happens: get, find, go · To what, where: long broad road
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, long broad road), 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 | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 found | nsubj |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 10 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 found | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 straight | advmod |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 dart | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 dart | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dart | det |
| 17 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Jack | a long broad road | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent road=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a long broad road not said here | as a dart | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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