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English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 47

So he walked along and he walked along and he walked along till he came to a great big tall house, and on the doorstep there was a great big tall woman.

Who acts: Jack, great big tall woman · What happens: walk, come, be · To what, where: great big tall house, doorstep

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, great big tall woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:660): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

advmodnsubjadvmodccnsubjconjadvmodccnsubjconjadvmodmarknsubjadvclcasedetamodamodamodoblpunctcccasedetoblexplconjdetamodamodamodnsubjpunctrootSoADVhePRONwalkedVERBalongADVandCCONJhePRONwalkedVERBalongADVandCCONJhePRONwalkedVERBalongADVtillSCONJhePRONcameVERBtoADPaDETgreatADJbigADJtallADJhouseNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJonADPtheDETdoorstepNOUNtherePRONwasVERBaDETgreatADJbigADJtallADJwomanNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 walkedadvmod
2hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 walkednsubj
3walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4alongalongADV_3 walkedadvmod
5andandCCONJ_7 walkedcc
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 walkednsubj
7walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
8alongalongADV_7 walkedadvmod
9andandCCONJ_11 walkedcc
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 walkednsubj
11walkedwalkVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
12alongalongADV_11 walkedadvmod
13tilltillSCONJ_15 camemark
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 camensubj
15camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 walkedadvcl
16totoADP_21 housecase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 housedet
18greatgreatADJDegree=Pos21 houseamod
19bigbigADJDegree=Pos21 houseamod
20talltallADJDegree=Pos21 houseamod
21househouseNOUNNumber=Sing15 cameobl
22,,PUNCT_28 waspunct
23andandCCONJ_28 wascc
24ononADP_26 doorstepcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 doorstepdet
26doorstepdoorstepNOUNNumber=Sing28 wasobl
27theretherePRON_28 wasexpl
28wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 walkedconj
29aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 womandet
30greatgreatADJDegree=Pos33 womanamod
31bigbigADJDegree=Pos33 womanamod
32talltallADJDegree=Pos33 womanamod
33womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing28 wasnsubj
34..PUNCT_3 walkedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1walkpastJackalong propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2walkpastJackalong propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3walkpastJackalong propertyvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4comepastJacka great big tall housevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
5bepasta great big tall womanthe doorstep; therevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on doorstep=Location

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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