English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 98
But this time he knew better than to go straight to the ogre's house.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: know, go · To what, where: house
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), 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 knew | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 knew | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 better | advcl |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 15 house | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ogre | det |
| 13 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 ogre | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | Jack | time | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Jack not said here | the ogre's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_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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