English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 90

And then the ogre began to nod his head, and to snore till the house shook.

Who acts: ogre, house · What happens: begin, nod, snore, shake · To what, where: 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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 began	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 began	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ogre	det
4	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 nod	mark
7	nod	nod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nod	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 snore	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 snore	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 snore	mark
13	snore	snore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nod	conj
14	till	till	SCONJ	_	17 shook	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shook	nsubj
17	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snore	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past	the ogre		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	nod	to-infinitive	the ogre not said here	ogre's head		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	snore	to-infinitive	the ogre not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	shake	past	the house			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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