English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 99
And when he got near it he waited behind a bush till he saw the ogre's wife come out with a pail to get some water, and then he crept into the house and got into the copper.
Who acts: Jack · What happens: get, wait, see, come out, creep · To what, where: house, bush, wife, water, copper
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | advcl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 waited | nsubj |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 bush | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bush | det |
| 11 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 waited | obl |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 saw | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ogre | det |
| 16 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 ogre | case |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | parataxis |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 pail | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 pail | det |
| 23 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 get | mark |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | advcl |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 water | det |
| 27 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 crept | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 crept | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 crept | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 crept | nsubj |
| 32 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 house | det |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crept | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 got | cc |
| 37 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 crept | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 copper | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 copper | det |
| 40 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 got | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Jack | house | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | Jack | a bush | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind bush=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Jack | the ogre's wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | come out | present | with a pail; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | some water | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | creep | past | Jack | the house | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination | |||
| 7 | get | past | Jack not said here | the copper | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into copper=Destination |
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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