The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 4

‘Jack,’ said she, ‘you have acted like a brave knight’s son, and deserve to have your inheritance restored to you.

Who acts: Jack, lady, inheritance, your · What happens: say, act, deserve, have, restore, inherit · To what, where: inheritance, you · 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 (Jack, lady, inheritance, your), 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	_	2 Jack	punct
2	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Jack	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Jack	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 acted	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 acted	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 acted	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 acted	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 acted	aux
11	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 said	ccomp
12	like	like	ADP	_	17 son	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 knight	det
14	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 knight	amod
15	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 knight	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 acted	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 deserve	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 deserve	cc
20	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 have	mark
22	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 deserve	xcomp
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 inheritance	nmod:poss
24	inheritance	inheritance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obj
25	restored	restore	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 have	xcomp
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 restored	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	act	present · perfect	lady			like a brave knight's son	vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent like son=Attribute
3	deserve	present					tree rules
4	have	to-infinitive		your inheritance			tree rules
5	restore	participle	your inheritance not said here		you		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
6	inherit		your				nom inheritance «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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