The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 60

The giant showed him a bed and bade him lie down and have a good sleep.

Who acts: giant, bed · What happens: show, lie down, have · To what, where: tailor, good sleep

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, bed), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 showed	nsubj
3	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showed	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bed	det
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lie	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bade	cc
8	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bed	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lie	nsubj
10	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 showed	parataxis
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 lie	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 lie	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 sleep	det
15	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sleep	amod
16	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 showed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show	past	the giant		tailor		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	lie down	present	a bed and bade			down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	infinitive	a bed and bade not said here	a good sleep			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=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 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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