English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 94
But that was all Jack heard, for he rushed off to the beanstalk and climbed down like a house on fire.
Who acts: that, Jack · What happens: be, rush off, climb down · To what, where: fire
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 (that, Jack), 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 heard | cc |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 Jack | det |
| 5 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 rushed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | parataxis |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 rushed | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 beanstalk | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 beanstalk | det |
| 14 | beanstalk | beanstalk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 climbed | cc |
| 16 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushed | conj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 climbed | compound:prt |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 house | det |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that | hear property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush off | past | Jack | to the beanstalk result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beanstalk=Result | ||||
| 3 | climb down | past | Jack not said here | fire | like a house | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fire=Trajectory |
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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