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title: The giants were terrified at the apparition, and, fearful lest he sh… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The giants were terrified at the apparition, and, fearful lest he should slay them, they all took to their heels as fast as they could. Who acts: giants, tailor, bed. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 64

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The giants were terrified at the apparition, and, fearful lest he should slay them, they all took to their heels as fast as they could.

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**Who acts:** giants, tailor, bed · **What happens:** be, slay, take · **To what, where:** apparition, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giants, tailor, bed), 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:pg503:42:64
# text = The giants were terrified at the apparition, and, fearful lest he should slay them, they all took to their heels as fast as they could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apparition	apparition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
12	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the giants |  |  | the apparition |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the giants *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slay** | should | tailor | bed |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | past | bed |  |  |  |  | to bed's heels *result*; fast *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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