The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 59

‘That’s a good boy,’ said the Giantess, nodding her head; ‘it is lucky for you that you did not scream out when you saw me, as the other boys who have been here did, for if you had done so my husband would have awakened and have eaten you, as he did them, for breakfast.

Who acts: That, good boy, head, you, other boys, boy · What happens: be, say, nod, not scream out, see, do · To what, where: good boy, head, me, husband, you · 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 (That, good boy, head, 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	_	6 boy	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 boy	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giantess	det
11	Giantess	Giantess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nodding	punct
13	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 nodding	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lucky	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 lucky	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lucky	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lucky	cop
20	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 you	case
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 lucky	obl
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 scream	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 scream	nsubj
25	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 scream	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 scream	advmod
27	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lucky	parataxis
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 scream	compound:prt
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 saw	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 saw	nsubj
31	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 scream	advcl
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 saw	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 boys	punct
34	as	as	ADP	_	37 boys	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boys	det
36	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 boys	amod
37	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 scream	parataxis
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 here	nsubj
39	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 here	aux
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 here	cop
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 boys	advmod
42	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 here	csubj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 done	punct
44	for	for	SCONJ	_	48 done	mark
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	48 done	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 done	nsubj
47	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 done	aux
48	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 did	conj
49	so	so	SCONJ	_	54 awakened	mark
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 husband	nmod:poss
51	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 awakened	nsubj:pass
52	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 awakened	aux
53	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	54 awakened	aux
54	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 done	advcl
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 eaten	cc
56	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 eaten	aux
57	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 awakened	conj
58	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	57 eaten	obj
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 did	punct
60	as	as	SCONJ	_	62 did	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 did	nsubj
62	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 eaten	conj
63	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 did	obj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	66 breakfast	punct
65	for	for	ADP	_	66 breakfast	case
66	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 did	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a good boy		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a good boy			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	nod	gerund	a good boy not said here	giantess's head		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	is	present	head		for you; lucky property	tree rules
5	not scream out speech: express	past · do-support	you			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	past	you	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
7	is	present · perfect	the other boys		here property	tree rules
8	do	past				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	do a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	awaken	would · perfect · passive		my husband		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
11	eat	present · perfect		you		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
12	do	past	boy	husband	for breakfast	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality

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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