English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 28

Then the giant went back to the king's house in a terrible temper and said he would destroy them all if they did not give him Nix Nought Nothing this time.

Who acts: giant, king · What happens: go back, say, destroy, not give · To what, where: terrible temper, king, Nothing, giant · 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 (giant, king), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 temper	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 temper	det
13	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 temper	amod
14	temper	temper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 destroy	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 destroy	aux
19	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 destroy	obj
21	all	all	ADV	_	19 destroy	advmod
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 give	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 give	advmod
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 destroy	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	iobj
28	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Nought	compound
29	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	30 Nothing	compound
30	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	26 give	obj
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the giant			a terrible temper	then	to the king's house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	destroy	would	giant	king				all property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	not give a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	king	Nothing	giant		time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=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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