English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 84
Well the big tall woman was that curious that she took him in and gave him something to eat.
Who acts: big tall woman, woman · What happens: be, take, give, eat · To what, where: Jack, something
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 (big tall woman, 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 curious | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 curious | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 curious | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 curious | mark |
| 8 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 took | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 curious | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 took | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 something | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the big tall woman | curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | woman | Jack | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | give | past | woman not said here | something | Jack | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Theme | |||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | woman not said here | something not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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