English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 33

The giant said one day to Nix Nought Nothing: “I've work for you to-morrow.

Who acts: giant · What happens: say, have · To what, where: Nothing, work · 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	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl:unmarked
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Nothing	case
7	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Nothing	nsubj
8	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	9 Nothing	compound
9	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 've	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 've	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 've	nsubj
13	've	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	parataxis
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 've	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 you	case
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 've	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 morrow	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 've	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the giant		Nothing		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nothing=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have in a quote	present	the giant = giant	work				for Nothing; to morrow	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient

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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