English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 78
There, sure enough, was the great big tall woman a-standing on the door-step.
Who acts: great big tall woman · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: great big tall woman
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 (great big tall woman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sure | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 sure | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 woman | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 woman | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sure | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 woman | appos |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 a | punct |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 woman | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 step | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 step | det |
| 17 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 step | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 door | punct |
| 19 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the great big tall woman | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the great big tall woman not said here | on the door step | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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