The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 87

The Giant, fearing that I should be lost altogether, sent his green lion after me, with orders to bring me back, cost what it might, and I should certainly have let myself be caught, or eaten up, or anything, rather than run any further, if I had not luckily met you by the fountain.

Who acts: orders, I · What happens: fear, lose, send, bring back, cost, let · To what, where: I, green lion, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, I), 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	12 sent	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fearing	punct
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Giant	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lost	mark
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lost	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 lost	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 lost	aux:pass
9	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 fearing	ccomp
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	9 lost	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 lion	nmod:poss
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lion	amod
15	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obj
16	after	after	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bring	punct
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	22 bring	mark
20	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bring	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 bring	mark
22	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 bring	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 bring	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cost	punct
26	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bring	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 cost	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 might	nsubj
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 what	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 let	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 let	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 let	nsubj:pass
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 let	aux
34	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	36 let	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	aux
36	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 sent	parataxis
37	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 let	obj
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 caught	aux:pass
39	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 let	xcomp
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 eaten	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 eaten	cc
42	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 let	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 eaten	compound:prt
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 anything	punct
45	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 anything	cc
46	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 eaten	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 run	punct
48	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	50 run	cc
49	than	than	ADP	_	48 rather	fixed
50	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 let	conj
51	any	any	ADV	_	52 further	advmod
52	further	further	ADV	_	50 run	advmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 met	punct
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 met	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 met	nsubj
56	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 met	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	59 met	advmod
58	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	59 met	advmod
59	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 run	advcl
60	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	59 met	obj
61	by	by	ADP	_	63 fountain	case
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 fountain	det
63	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 met	obl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fear	gerund						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	lose	should · passive		I			altogether property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	send	past		Giant's green lion		after me		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme
4	bring back	to-infinitive	orders		me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
5	cost	infinitive	orders not said here					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value
6	let	should · perfect · passive		I			certainly property	tree rules
7	catch	infinitive · passive	I not said here					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»
8	eat up	participle						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
9	run	infinitive					further property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not meet a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	I	you			by the fountain; luckily property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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