English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 14

I promised to give the giant who carried me over the river on his back, Nix Nought Nothing.”

Who acts: I, giant · What happens: promise, give, carry · To what, where: giant, me, river

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 (I, giant), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 give	mark
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 carried	nsubj
8	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giant	acl:relcl
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 carried	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Nothing	punct
17	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Nought	compound
18	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 Nothing	compound
19	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 give	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the giant		Nothing obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
3	carry	past	the giant	me	the river	on Nix's back	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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