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title: The Giant, fearing that I should be lost altogether, sent his green… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Giant, fearing that I should be lost altogether, sent his green lion after me, with orders to bring me back, cost what it might, and I should certainly have let myself be caught, or eaten up, or anything, rather than run any further, if I had not luckily met you by the fountain. Who acts: orders
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 87

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The Giant, fearing that I should be lost altogether, sent his green lion after me, with orders to bring me back, cost what it might, and I should certainly have let myself be caught, or eaten up, or anything, rather than run any further, if I had not luckily met you by the fountain.

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**Who acts:** orders, I · **What happens:** fear, lose, send, bring back, cost, let · **To what, where:** I, green lion, me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, I), 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:pg7277:38:87
# text = The Giant, fearing that I should be lost altogether, sent his green lion after me, with orders to bring me back, cost what it might, and I should certainly have let myself be caught, or eaten up, or anything, rather than run any further, if I had not luckily met you by the fountain.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	after	after	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	cost	cost	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux	_	_
36	let	let	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
37	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	50	cc	_	_
49	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	fixed	_	_
50	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
51	any	any	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
52	further	further	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
54	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
55	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
56	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	59	advmod	_	_
58	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
59	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	_
60	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	by	by	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **lose** | should · passive |  | I |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **send** | past |  | Giant's green lion |  |  | after me |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
| 4 | **bring back** | to-infinitive | orders |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 5 | **cost** | infinitive | orders *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value |
| 6 | **let** | should · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **catch** | infinitive · passive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
| 8 | **eat up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **run** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 10 | **not** **meet** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | you |  |  |  | by the fountain; luckily *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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