English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 59

But Jack hadn't half finished these when thump! thump! thump! the whole house began to tremble with the noise of someone coming.

Who acts: Jack, whole house, someone · What happens: not finish, begin, tremble, come, noise · To what, where: thump thump

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, whole house, someone), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 finished	cc
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 finished	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 finished	advmod
5	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	6 finished	advmod
6	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	13 thump	det
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 thump	advmod
9	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thump	compound
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 thump	punct
11	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thump	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 thump	punct
13	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 finished	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 house	det
16	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 house	amod
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 finished	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 tremble	mark
20	tremble	tremble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 noise	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 noise	det
23	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 tremble	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 someone	case
25	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 noise	nmod
26	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 someone	acl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not finish	past · perfect	Jack	this thump thump	half property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector thump=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the whole house			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tremble	to-infinitive	the whole house not said here		with the noise of someone	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	gerund				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	noise		someone			nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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