--- title: ‘My friends,’ said she, ‘the cruel giant who oppressed you and ate u… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg540:21:17 # text = ‘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.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 cruel cruel ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 oppressed oppress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 flocks flock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 herds herd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 cop _ _ 25 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 nsubj _ _ 33 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 34 of of SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 delivered deliver VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 ccomp _ _ 38 from from ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 47 kind kind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 48 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/21/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/21/18/) - ↑ back to [The Giant Breaks His Neck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/21/)