English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 92
But this time the hen gave a cackle which woke the ogre, and just as Jack got out of the house he heard him calling: “Wife, wife, what have you done with my golden hen?”
Who acts: hen, cackle, Jack, ogre, Wife · What happens: give, wake, get out, hear, call, do · To what, where: cackle, ogre, house, Wife · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hen, cackle, Jack, ogre), 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 | _ | 6 gave | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hen | det |
| 5 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cackle | det |
| 8 | cackle | cackle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 woke | nsubj |
| 10 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cackle | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ogre | det |
| 12 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woke | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 got | mark |
| 17 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 house | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | nsubj |
| 24 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | parataxis |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 heard | obj |
| 26 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 heard | xcomp |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wife | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wife | punct |
| 29 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 calling | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 wife | punct |
| 31 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 Wife | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 done | obj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 done | aux |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 done | nsubj |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 Wife | acl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 hen | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 hen | nmod:poss |
| 39 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 hen | amod |
| 40 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 done | obl |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 Wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the hen | a cackle | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cackle=Theme | |||
| 2 | wake | past | a cackle | the ogre | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ogre=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get out | past | Jack | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | past | Jack | ogre | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call speech: ask | gerund | ogre not said here | Wife and wife | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Wife and wife = wife | Wife and wife | with my golden hen | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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