The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 17

‘My friends,’ said she, ‘the cruel giant who oppressed you and ate up all your flocks and herds is dead, and this young gentleman was the means of your being delivered from him, and is the son of your kind old master, the knight.’

Who acts: friends, cruel giant, Fairy, young gentleman · What happens: say, oppress, eat up, be, deliver · To what, where: you, flocks, son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, cruel giant, Fairy, young gentleman), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 friends	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dead	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 giant	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 giant	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giant	det
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 giant	amod
12	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 she	appos
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 oppressed	nsubj
14	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 giant	acl:relcl
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 oppressed	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 oppressed	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 ate	compound:prt
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 flocks	det:predet
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 flocks	nmod:poss
21	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ate	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 herds	cc
23	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flocks	conj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dead	cop
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 means	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 means	cc
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 gentleman	det
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 gentleman	amod
30	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 means	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 means	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 means	nsubj
33	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	37 delivered	mark
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 delivered	nmod:poss
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 delivered	aux:pass
37	delivered	deliver	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 means	ccomp
38	from	from	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 delivered	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 son	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 son	cc
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 son	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 son	det
44	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
45	of	of	ADP	_	49 master	case
46	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 master	nmod:poss
47	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 master	amod
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 master	amod
49	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 son	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 knight	punct
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 knight	det
52	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 master	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
54	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My friends			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	oppress	past	the cruel giant	you		tree rules
3	eat up	past	the cruel giant not said here	your flocks and herds		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient
4	is	present	Fairy		dead property	tree rules
5	is	past	this young gentleman		mean property	tree rules
6	deliver	gerund · passive			from gentleman	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from he=Initial_Location
7	is a	present		the son	of your kind old master and the knight	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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