English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 31

The giant said: “I've got the right one now;” and took Nix Nought Nothing to his own house and brought him up till he was a man.

Who acts: giant · What happens: say, get, take, bring up, be · To what, where: right one, Nix, 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), 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 got	nsubj
7	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 got	aux
8	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 got	obj
12	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 got	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 got	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 took	cc
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
17	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
18	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	19 Nothing	compound
19	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 took	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 house	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 house	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 house	amod
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 brought	cc
25	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 brought	obj
27	up	up	ADP	_	25 brought	compound:prt
28	till	till	ADP	_	32 man	case
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 man	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 man	cop
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 brought	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the giant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	the giant = giant	the right one	now		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	take	past	the giant not said here	Nix		to giant's own house	tree rules
4	bring up	past	the giant not said here	giant			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	is	past	giant		till a man		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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