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title: Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after. Who acts: ogre, beanstalk. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 127

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Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.

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**Who acts:** ogre, beanstalk · **What happens:** fall down, break, come, topple, crown · **To what, where:** crown

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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 (ogre, beanstalk), 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:pg7439:16:127
# text = Then the ogre fell down and broke his crown, and the beanstalk came toppling after.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	beanstalk	beanstalk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	toppling	topple	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
16	after	after	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall down** | past | the ogre |  |  |  | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | the ogre *not said here* | ogre's crown |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crown=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the beanstalk |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **topple** | gerund | the beanstalk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | after *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **crown** |  | ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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