English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 39

Nix Nought Nothing began early next morning and tried to lave the water with his pail, but the lake was never getting any less, and he didn't know what to do; but the giant's daughter called on all the fish in the sea to come and drink the water, and very soon they drank it dry.

Who acts: Nothing, lake, giant, daughter, fish · What happens: begin, try, lave, not get, not know, do · To what, where: water, lake · 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, lake, giant, daughter), 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 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 began	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tried	cc
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 lave	mark
11	lave	lave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lave	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 pail	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 pail	nmod:poss
16	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lave	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 getting	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 getting	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lake	det
20	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 getting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 getting	aux
22	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 getting	advmod
23	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 began	parataxis
24	any	any	ADV	_	25 less	advmod
25	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 getting	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 know	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 know	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 know	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 know	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 know	advmod
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 getting	conj
32	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 do	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 do	mark
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	ccomp
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 called	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 called	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 giant	det
38	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 daughter	nmod:poss
39	's	's	PART	_	38 giant	case
40	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 called	nsubj
41	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 began	parataxis
42	on	on	ADP	_	45 fish	case
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 fish	det:predet
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 fish	det
45	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 called	obl
46	in	in	ADP	_	48 sea	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 sea	det
48	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 fish	nmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 come	mark
50	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 called	advcl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 drink	cc
52	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 come	conj
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 water	det
54	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 drink	obj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 drank	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 drank	cc
57	very	very	ADV	_	58 soon	advmod
58	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	60 drank	advmod
59	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 drank	nsubj
60	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 drank	obj
62	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 drank	xcomp
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Nothing		morning	early property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	try	past	Nothing not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	lave not said to happen	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	the water		with giant's pail	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	not get	past · progressive	the lake			less property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	not know	past · do-support	giant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	call	participle	the giant's daughter			on all fish in the sea	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come	to-infinitive	the giant's daughter not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	drink	infinitive	the giant's daughter not said here	the water			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
10	drink	past	fish	lake		dry, soon property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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