English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 15

The king and the queen were sad and sorry, but they said: “When the giant comes we will give him the hen-wife's boy; he will never know the difference.”

Who acts: king, giant, we · What happens: be, say, come, give, not know · To what, where: boy, giant, difference · 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 (king, giant, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sad	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 queen	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 queen	det
5	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 king	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	cop
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sorry	cc
9	sorry	sorry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sad	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sad	conj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
16	When	when	SCONJ	_	19 comes	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 comes	nsubj
19	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 give	advcl
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 give	aux
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 give	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wife	det
25	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wife	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 hen	punct
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boy	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 wife	case
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 know	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 know	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 know	aux
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 know	advmod
34	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sad	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 difference	det
36	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 know	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king and the queen			sad property	tree rules
2	be		the king and the queen not said here				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come in a quote	present	the giant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	give in a quote	future	we	the hen wife's boy	giant		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient boy=Theme
6	not know in a quote	future	giant	the difference			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

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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