The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 25
‘The lady yielded to this reasoning, and consented to remain at her nurse’s house as the best place of concealment; for the servant told her that the giant had vowed, if he could find her, he would kill both her and her baby.
Who acts: lady, giant · What happens: yield, consent, remain, tell, vow, find · To what, where: house, lady, giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of 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 (lady, giant), 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 | _ | 4 yielded | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yielded | nsubj |
| 4 | yielded | yield | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 reasoning | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 reasoning | det |
| 7 | reasoning | reasoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 yielded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 consented | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 consented | cc |
| 10 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 yielded | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 remain | mark |
| 12 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 consented | xcomp |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 nurse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 nurse | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remain | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 place | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 20 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 place | amod |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 remain | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 concealment | case |
| 23 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 place | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 servant | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 servant | det |
| 27 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 told | obl |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 yielded | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | iobj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 vowed | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 giant | det |
| 32 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 vowed | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 vowed | aux |
| 34 | vowed | vow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 told | ccomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 find | punct |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 39 find | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 find | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 find | aux |
| 39 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 told | parataxis |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 find | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 kill | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 kill | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 kill | aux |
| 44 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 find | conj |
| 45 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 46 her | cc:preconj |
| 46 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 kill | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 baby | cc |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 baby | nmod:poss |
| 49 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 her | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 yielded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yield | past | the lady | to this reasoning | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reasoning=Theme | ||||
| 2 | consent | participle | the lady not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | lady's nurse's house | as the best place of concealment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | |||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | the lady not said here | lady | for the servant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | vow | past · perfect · passive | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | giant | lady | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 7 | kill | would | giant | lady | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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