English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 3

_ In this, when Jack arrives at the top of the Beanstalk, he is met by a fairy, who gravely informs him that the ogre had stolen all his possessions from Jack's father.

Who acts: Jack, fairy · What happens: arrive, meet, inform, steal, possess · To what, where: top, _, Jack, ogre

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. 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, fairy), 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	_	_	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 met	nsubj
2	In	in	ADP	_	3 this	case
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 _	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 arrives	mark
6	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	nsubj
7	arrives	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 met	advcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 arrives	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Beanstalk	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Beanstalk	det
13	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 arrives	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 met	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 met	aux:pass
17	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 fairy	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fairy	det
20	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 met	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 informs	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 informs	nsubj
23	gravely	gravely	ADV	_	24 informs	advmod
24	informs	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 fairy	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 informs	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 stolen	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ogre	det
28	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stolen	nsubj:pass
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stolen	aux
30	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 informs	advcl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 possessions	det:predet
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 possessions	nmod:poss
33	possessions	possession	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 stolen	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	37 father	case
35	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 father	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Jack	case
37	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stolen	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	present	Jack			the top of the Beanstalk		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	present · passive	a fairy	_ in this				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Co-Agent
3	inform speech: other	present	a fairy		Jack		gravely property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	steal	past · perfect · passive		the ogre			from Jack's father	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary possession=Theme
5	possess		Jack					nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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