English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 3

The queen would not christen the boy till the king came back, and she said, “We will just call him _Nix Nought Nothing_ until his father comes home.”

Who acts: queen, king, We, father · What happens: not christen, come back, say, call, come · To what, where: boy · 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 (queen, king, We, father), 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 queen	det
2	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 christen	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 christen	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 christen	advmod
5	christen	christen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 christen	obj
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 came	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 came	nsubj
11	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 christen	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 came	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 came	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 call	punct
19	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 call	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 call	aux
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 call	advmod
22	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 call	obj
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	26 Nought	punct
25	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Nought	compound
26	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	22 call	xcomp
27	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Nought	appos
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	27 Nothing	punct
29	until	until	SCONJ	_	32 comes	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 comes	nsubj
32	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 call	advcl
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 comes	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 christen	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 christen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not christen	would	the queen	the boy			vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent boy=Result
2	come back	past	the king				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call in a quote	future	We		boy		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	come in a quote	present	boy's father			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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