English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 4

The object of this was to prevent the tale becoming an encouragement to theft!

Who acts: object · What happens: be, become · To what, where: encouragement

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 (object), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 object	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prevent	cop
6	to	to	PART	_	7 prevent	mark
7	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tale	det
9	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prevent	obj
10	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 prevent	advcl
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 encouragement	det
12	encouragement	encouragement	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becoming	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 theft	case
14	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 becoming	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 prevent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the object of this					prevent property	tree rules
2	become	gerund	the object of this not said here	a encouragement				to theft	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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