--- title: This I must carry to the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This I must carry to the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and Five Humps, and, in place of it, he will bestow on me the blue falcon, which I have promised my stepmother, so that she may free me from the spell which she has laid on me.' Who acts: This, place. 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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 (This, place), 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:pg3027:8:11 # text = This I must carry to the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and Five Humps, and, in place of it, he will bestow on me the blue falcon, which I have promised my stepmother, so that she may free me from the spell which she has laid on me.' 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 nsubj _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 Heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nummod _ _ 14 Necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 Humps hump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 bestow bestow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 falcon falcon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 promised promise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl:relcl _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 stepmother stepmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 46 mark _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 parataxis _ _ 47 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 obl _ _ 48 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 spell spell NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 51 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl:relcl _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | must | This | | the giant of the Five Heads and Five Necks and Five Humps | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to giant=Destination | | 2 | **bestow** | future | place of giant | the blue falcon | | | | on me | tree rules | | 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present · perfect · passive | | the blue falcon | my stepmother | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: subject=Goal stepmother=Theme | | 4 | **lay** | present · perfect · passive | | the spell | | | | on me | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on i=Destination | 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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/10/) - next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/12/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/8/)