The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 120

Everyone he met told him what a terrible giant Galifron was, and that nobody dared go near him; and the more he heard, the more frightened he grew.

Who acts: Galifron, Everyone, terrible giant, nobody · What happens: meet, tell, be, dare, go, hear · To what, where: Galifron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Galifron, Everyone, terrible giant, nobody), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 told	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Everyone	acl:relcl
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 told	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 giant	det
8	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 giant	amod
9	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 what	nsubj
10	Galifron	Galifron	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 giant	appos
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dared	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dared	cc
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 nobody	det
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 dared	nsubj
16	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 dared	xcomp
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 go	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 more	det
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	25 heard	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 frightened	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 more	det
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 frightened	advmod
29	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 heard	parataxis
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 grew	nsubj
31	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 frightened	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Galifron			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	Everyone	Galifron		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is a	past	a terrible giant			tree rules
4	dare	past	nobody			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	go	infinitive	nobody not said here		near Galifron	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location
6	hear	past	Galifron			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
7	frighten	past				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	grow	past	Galifron			vn appear-48.1.1 «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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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