English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 85

But he had scarcely begun munching it as slowly as he could when thump! thump! thump! they heard the giant's footstep, and his wife hid Jack away in the oven.

Who acts: Jack, wife · What happens: begin, munch, hear, hide away · To what, where: luck, footstep, Jack, oven

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, wife), 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	_	5 begun	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begun	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 begun	aux
4	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	5 begun	advmod
5	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	munching	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 begun	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 munching	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 slowly	advmod
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 munching	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	nsubj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 thump	advmod
14	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thump	compound
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 thump	punct
16	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thump	conj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 thump	punct
18	thump	thump	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 could	obl
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 could	punct
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 munching	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
23	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 footstep	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 giant	case
25	footstep	footstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 hid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hid	cc
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 wife	nmod:poss
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hid	nsubj
30	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 heard	conj
31	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 hid	obj
32	away	away	ADV	_	30 hid	advmod
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 oven	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 oven	det
35	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hid	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	Jack			scarcely property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	munch	gerund	Jack not said here	luck		slowly property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	hear	past		the giant's footstep			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus
4	hide away	past	Jack's wife	Jack	the oven	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent jack=Patient in oven=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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