--- title: When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life. Who acts: ogre, Jack. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/117/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/) / 117 # English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 117 When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life. **Who acts:** ogre, Jack · **What happens:** get, not be, see, disappear, get up, climb down · **To what, where:** twenty yards, road · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (ogre, 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:pg7439:16:117 # text = When he got to the beanstalk the ogre was not more than twenty yards away when suddenly he saw Jack disappear like, and when he got up to the end of the road he saw Jack underneath climbing down for dear life. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 beanstalk beanstalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 ogre ogre NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 10 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 11 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 13 advmod _ _ 12 than than ADP IN _ 11 fixed _ _ 13 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 yards yard NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 17 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 disappear disappear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 climbing climb VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 ccomp _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | ogre | | | | | to the beanstalk *result*; suddenly *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to beanstalk=Result | | 2 | **not** **is a** | past | the ogre | twenty yards | | | | away *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** | past | ogre | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **disappear** | present | Jack | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **get up** | past | Jack | | | | to the end of the road | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to end=Result | | 6 | **see** | past | Jack | the road *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **climb down** | gerund | Jack | | | | | for dear life; underneath *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/116/) - next →: [sentence 118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/118/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)