The Red Fairy Book, The Talking Harp., sentence 3

She feared another robbery; but Jack’s fresh face looked so innocent that she could not resist him, and so she bade him come in, and again hid him away in the wardrobe.

Who acts: Giantess, fresh face · What happens: fear, look, not resist, bade, come in, hide away · To what, where: robbery, face, wardrobe

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Talking Harp.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giantess, fresh face), 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 feared	nsubj
2	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	4 robbery	det
4	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 feared	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
7	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 face	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Jack	case
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 face	amod
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 feared	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 innocent	advmod
13	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looked	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 resist	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 resist	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 resist	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 resist	advmod
18	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 innocent	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 resist	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 bade	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bade	cc
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 bade	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bade	nsubj
24	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 looked	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bade	obj
26	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bade	xcomp
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 come	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hid	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hid	cc
30	again	again	ADV	_	31 hid	advmod
31	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 feared	conj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 hid	obj
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 hid	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 wardrobe	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 wardrobe	det
36	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 hid	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fear	past	Giantess	another robbery				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer robbery=Stimulus
2	look	past	Jack's fresh face				innocent property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not resist	could	Giantess	face				tree rules
4	bade	past	Giantess	face				tree rules
5	come in	infinitive	Giantess not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hide away	past	Giantess not said here	face	the wardrobe	again	away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in wardrobe=Location

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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