The Red Fairy Book, The Money Bags., sentence 3

She bade him stay quite still there, or the Giant would eat him.

Who acts: woman, Giant · What happens: bade, stay, eat · To what, where: Jack

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Money Bags.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	obj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bade	xcomp
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
6	still	still	ADV	_	7 there	advmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stay	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 eat	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 eat	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Giant	det
11	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 eat	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stay	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bade	past	woman	Jack		tree rules
2	stay	infinitive	woman not said here		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat	would	the Giant	Jack		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 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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