--- title: The giant looked at them kindly, for he was not at all hard- hearted… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The giant looked at them kindly, for he was not at all hard- hearted, but said that he had no power to do anything, and that if the princess did not go with him quietly the dragon would come himself. Who acts: giant, prince, power, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Open --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/49/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/) / 49 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 49 The giant looked at them kindly, for he was not at all hard- hearted, but said that he had no power to do anything, and that if the princess did not go with him quietly the dragon would come himself. **Who acts:** giant, prince, power, princess, dragon · **What happens:** look, not be, say, have, do, not go · **To what, where:** power, anything, prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, prince, power, princess), 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:pg3027:29:49 # text = The giant looked at them kindly, for he was not at all hard- hearted, but said that he had no power to do anything, and that if the princess did not go with him quietly the dragon would come himself. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 6 kindly kindly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 8 for for SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 16 nsubj _ _ 14 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 hearted hearted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 23 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 24 det _ _ 24 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 27 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ _ 39 quietly quietly ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 44 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | past | the giant | | | | | at words *= word*; kindly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | | 2 | **not** **is** | past | prince | | | | | hearted *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** | past | prince | no power | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | no power *not said here* | anything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | | 6 | **not** **go** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | the princess | | | | | with prince | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | | 7 | **come** | would | the dragon | prince | | | | quietly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/50/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/29/)