English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 11

She told him that she had not given the child any name, but just Nix Nought Nothing, until he should come home again himself.

Who acts: wife, Nix · What happens: tell, not give, come · To what, where: Nix, name, child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Nix), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 given	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 given	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 given	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 given	advmod
8	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obj
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	12 name	det
12	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 given	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Nothing	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 Nothing	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 Nothing	advmod
16	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Nothing	nsubj
17	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	18 Nothing	compound
18	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
20	until	until	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Nothing	parataxis
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 come	obl:unmarked
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	wife		Nix			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not give	past · perfect	wife	any name	the child			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent child=Recipient name=Theme
3	come	should	Nix	Nix		again	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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