English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 73

Well, the ogre had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out of it a couple of bags of gold and sits down counting them till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again.

Who acts: ogre, whole house · What happens: have, go, take out, sit down, count, begin · To what, where: breakfast, big chest, bags, last head

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 (ogre, whole house), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breakfast	nmod:poss
7	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 goes	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 goes	cc
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 that	case
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 goes	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	17 chest	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 chest	det
16	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chest	amod
17	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 takes	cc
19	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 goes	conj
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 it	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 takes	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 couple	det
24	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 takes	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 bags	case
26	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 couple	nmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 gold	case
28	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bags	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sits	cc
30	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 takes	conj
31	down	down	ADP	_	30 sits	compound:prt
32	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 sits	advcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 counting	obj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	39 began	mark
35	at	at	ADP	_	38 head	case
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 head	amod
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 began	obl
39	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 counting	advcl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 nod	mark
41	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 began	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 began	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 began	nsubj
44	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 began	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 snore	mark
46	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 began	xcomp
47	till	till	SCONJ	_	51 shook	mark
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 house	det
49	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 house	amod
50	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 shook	nsubj
51	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 snore	advcl
52	again	again	ADV	_	51 shook	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	the ogre	ogre's breakfast			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient
2	go	present	ogre		a big chest	after that	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial_Location
3	take out	present	ogre not said here	breakfast			tree rules
4	sit down	present	ogre not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	count	gerund	ogre not said here	bags = bag			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	begin	past	ogre not said here		ogre's last head		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	nod	to-infinitive	ogre not said here				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	begin	past	ogre				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
9	snore	to-infinitive	ogre not said here				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	shake	past	the whole house			again	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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