English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 76
So they lived on the bag of gold for some time, but at last they came to the end of that so Jack made up his mind to try his luck once more up at the top of the beanstalk.
Who acts: bags, last, Jack · What happens: live, come, make up, try, mind · To what, where: bag, end, mind, luck
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 (bags, last, Jack), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 bag | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bag | det |
| 6 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bag | nmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lived | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 last | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lived | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 end | nmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 made | advmod |
| 24 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | advcl |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 made | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mind | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 try | mark |
| 30 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 luck | nmod:poss |
| 32 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 try | obj |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 more | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 try | advmod |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 more | compound:prt |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 top | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 top | det |
| 38 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 more | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 beanstalk | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 beanstalk | det |
| 41 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 top | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | bags = bag | the bag of gold | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bag=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | last | to the end of that | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | make up | past | Jack | Jack's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | Jack's luck | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | mind | Jack | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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