English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 38

Then he said to Nix Nought Nothing: “There's a lake seven miles long, and seven miles deep, and seven miles broad, and you must drain it to-morrow by nightfall, or else I'll have you for my supper.”

Who acts: giant, lake, Nothing · What happens: say, be, drain, have · To what, where: Nothing, lake, morrow · 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, lake, Nothing), 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	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 Nothing	case
5	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Nothing	nsubj
6	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 Nothing	compound
7	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 said	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 's	punct
10	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 's	expl
11	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 broad	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 lake	det
13	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 's	nsubj
14	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 miles	nummod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 long	obl:unmarked
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lake	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deep	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 deep	cc
19	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 miles	nummod
20	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 deep	obl:unmarked
21	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 's	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 broad	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 broad	cc
24	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 miles	nummod
25	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 broad	obl:unmarked
26	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 drain	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 drain	cc
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 drain	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 drain	aux
31	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 broad	parataxis
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 drain	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 morrow	case
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 to	punct
35	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drain	obl
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 nightfall	case
37	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 drain	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 have	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 have	cc
40	else	else	ADV	_	43 have	advmod
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 have	nsubj
42	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 have	aux
43	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 drain	conj
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 have	obj
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 supper	case
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 supper	nmod:poss
47	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 have	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	giant		Nothing		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to nothing=Recipient
2	be in a quote	present	a lake			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drain in a quote	must	Nothing	lake		morrow		by nightfall	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to morrow=Destination
4	have in a quote	future	giant	Nothing				for my supper; else property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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