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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 123

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And his mother came rushing out with the axe in her hand, but when she came to the beanstalk she stood stock still with fright for there she saw the ogre just coming down below the clouds.

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**Who acts:** mother, ogre · **What happens:** come, rush out, stand, see, come down · **To what, where:** beanstalk, stock, ogre, clouds

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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 (mother, ogre), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7439:16:123
# text = And his mother came rushing out with the axe in her hand, but when she came to the beanstalk she stood stock still with fright for there she saw the ogre just coming down below the clouds.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	acl	_	_
35	down	down	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	below	below	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Jack's mother |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush out** | gerund | Jack's mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the axe in mother's hand | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with axe=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | past | mother |  |  | the beanstalk |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to beanstalk=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **stand** | past | mother | stock |  |  | still | with fright | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | past | mother | the ogre |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ogre=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come down** | gerund | the ogre *not said here* |  |  | the clouds |  | down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme below cloud=Location |

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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.

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**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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