--- title: “No fear of that,” said the giant; “the rampart is quite wide on the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “No fear of that,” said the giant; “the rampart is quite wide on the top, and covered with long grass, so that you will come down as softly as though you fell on a feather-bed.” Who acts: fear, rampart, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fear, rampart, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:30:33 # text = “No fear of that,” said the giant; “the rampart is quite wide on the top, and covered with long grass, so that you will come down as softly as though you fell on a feather-bed.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 3 det _ _ 3 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 rampart rampart NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 quite quite ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 ccomp _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 32 mark _ _ 29 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 fixed _ _ 30 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 33 down down ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 as as ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 softly softly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 though though SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 42 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | no fear of that | the giant | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | | 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the rampart | | | the top | | wide *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **cover** *in a quote* | participle | no fear of that *not said here* | | | | | with long grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with grass=Theme | | 4 | **come down** *in a quote* | future | you | | | | | down, softly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | you | | | a feather bed | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bed=Location | | 6 | **fear** *in a quote* | | | that | | | | | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/34/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/30/)