English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 30

Nix Nought Nothing said: “It is the time that my father the king will be sitting down to supper.”

Who acts: Nothing, temper, father · What happens: say, be, sit down · To what, where: time · 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 (Nothing, temper, 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	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nought	compound
2	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	3 Nothing	compound
3	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
7	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 time	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 time	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sitting	obj
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 father	nmod:poss
13	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 father	appos
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 sitting	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 sitting	aux
18	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 time	acl:relcl
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 sitting	advmod
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 supper	case
21	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sitting	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 time	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Nothing			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	temper	the time		tree rules
3	sit down in a quote	future · progressive	my father	the time	to supper; down property	tree rules

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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