--- title: Jack instantly began to climb, and went up and up on the ladder-like… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Jack instantly began to climb, and went up and up on the ladder-like bean till everything he had left behind him—the cottage, the village, and even the tall church tower—looked quite little, and still he could not see the top of the Beanstalk. Who acts: Jack, tall church tower. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, tall church tower), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:16:4 # text = Jack instantly began to climb, and went up and up on the ladder-like bean till everything he had left behind him—the cottage, the village, and even the tall church tower—looked quite little, and still he could not see the top of the Beanstalk. 1 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 instantly instantly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 up up ADV RB _ 9 conj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 bean bean NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 18 till till ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 17 nmod _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 23 behind behind ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 — - PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 church church NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 quite quite ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 still still ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 45 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 48 advmod _ _ 48 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obj _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 Beanstalk Beanstalk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | Jack | the tall church tower | | | | instantly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **climb** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go up** | past | Jack *not said here* | | | the like bean till everything and the cottage and the village | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **leave** | past · perfect | Jack | | | | | behind him *= he* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location | | 5 | **look** | past | the tall church tower *not said here* | little | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **not** **see** | could | Jack | the top of the Beanstalk | | | still | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer top=Stimulus | 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:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/5/) - ↑ back to [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/)