The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 33

“No fear of that,” said the giant; “the rampart is quite wide on the top, and covered with long grass, so that you will come down as softly as though you fell on a feather-bed.”

Who acts: fear, rampart, you · What happens: say, be, cover, come down, fall, fear · To what, where: giant, top, feather bed, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, rampart, you), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 fear	det
3	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 fear	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 fear	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 wide	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 wide	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rampart	det
14	rampart	rampart	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wide	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wide	cop
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 wide	advmod
17	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 said	ccomp
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 top	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 top	det
20	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 wide	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 covered	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 covered	cc
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 said	conj
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 grass	case
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grass	amod
26	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	32 come	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 come	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
32	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 covered	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 softly	advmod
35	softly	softly	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
36	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 fell	mark
37	though	though	SCONJ	_	39 fell	mark
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 fell	nsubj
39	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	advcl
40	on	on	ADP	_	44 bed	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bed	det
42	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bed	compound
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 feather	punct
44	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fell	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	no fear of that	the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the rampart		the top	wide property	tree rules
3	cover in a quote	participle	no fear of that not said here			with long grass	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grass=Theme
4	come down in a quote	future	you			down, softly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall in a quote	past	you		a feather bed		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bed=Location
6	fear in a quote			that			nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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