--- title: After climbing higher and higher, till he grew afraid to look down f… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After climbing higher and higher, till he grew afraid to look down for fear he should be giddy, Jack at last reached the top of the Beanstalk, and found himself in a beautiful country, finely wooded, with beautiful meadows covered with sheep. Who acts: Jack. 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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), 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:pg540:16:7 # text = After climbing higher and higher, till he grew afraid to look down for fear he should be giddy, Jack at last reached the top of the Beanstalk, and found himself in a beautiful country, finely wooded, with beautiful meadows covered with sheep. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 climbing climb VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 3 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 xcomp _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 till till SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 afraid afraid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 down down ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 cop _ _ 19 giddy giddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 21 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 last Last PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Beanstalk Beanstalk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 finely finely ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 wooded wood VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obl _ _ 45 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **climb** | gerund | Jack *not said here* | | | | | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **grow** | past | Jack | | | | | afraid *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **look down** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | | | | | for fear | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for fear=Theme | | 4 | **is** | should | Jack | fear *not said here* | | | | giddy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **reach** | past | Jack at last | the top of the Beanstalk | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | | 6 | **find** | past | Jack *not said here* | Jack | | a beautiful country | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 7 | **wood** | participle | Jack *not said here* | | | | | with beautiful meadows; finely *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **cover** | participle | | beautiful meadows *not said here* | | | | with sheep | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with sheep=Theme | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/8/) - ↑ back to [Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/16/)