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title: But, alas! she met none of these; instead, a horrible giant came out… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, alas! she met none of these; instead, a horrible giant came out of his cave and ordered her to follow him. Who acts: princess, horrible giant. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 17

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But, alas! she met none of these; instead, a horrible giant came out of his cave and ordered her to follow him.

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**Who acts:** princess, horrible giant · **What happens:** meet, come out, order, follow · **To what, where:** none, cave, princess, giant

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, horrible giant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:28:17
# text = But, alas! she met none of these; instead, a horrible giant came out of his cave and ordered her to follow him.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | princess | none |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come out** | past | a horrible giant | giant's cave |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cave=Result |
| 3 | **order** | past | a horrible giant *not said here* |  | princess |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a horrible giant *not said here* | giant |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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