English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 96

Well, Jack was not content, and it wasn't very long before he determined to have another try at his luck up there at the top of the beanstalk.

Who acts: Jack, house · What happens: not be, determine, have · To what, where: try, luck

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, 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 content	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 content	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 content	advmod
6	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 determined	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 long	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 long	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 long	cop
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 long	advmod
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 long	advmod
13	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 determined	advmod
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	16 determined	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 determined	nsubj
16	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 content	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 determined	xcomp
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 try	det
20	try	try	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 luck	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 luck	nmod:poss
23	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obl
24	up	up	ADV	_	25 there	advmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 have	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 top	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 top	det
28	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 there	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 beanstalk	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 beanstalk	det
31	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 top	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Jack			content property	tree rules
2	not is	past	house			long property	tree rules
3	determine	past	Jack				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive	Jack not said here	another try	Jack's luck; there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent try=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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