English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 41

At first the giant's daughter did not know how to help Nix Nought Nothing; but she cut off first her fingers and then her toes, and made steps of them, and he clomb the tree and got all the eggs safe till he came just to the bottom, and then one was broken.

Who acts: daughter, giant · What happens: not know, help, cut off, make, clomb, get · To what, where: Nix, fingers, steps, eggs, bottom, one · 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 (daughter, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 know	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 giant	det
4	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 giant	case
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 know	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 know	advmod
9	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 help	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 know	ccomp
13	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 help	obj
14	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	15 Nothing	compound
15	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 help	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 cut	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 cut	cc
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cut	nsubj
19	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 know	parataxis
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 cut	compound:prt
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	23 fingers	advmod
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 fingers	nmod:poss
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 cut	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 toes	cc
25	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 toes	advmod
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 toes	nmod:poss
27	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fingers	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 made	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 made	cc
30	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 cut	conj
31	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 made	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 steps	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 clomb	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 clomb	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 clomb	nsubj
37	clomb	clomb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cut	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tree	det
39	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 clomb	appos
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 got	cc
41	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tree	conj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 eggs	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 eggs	det
44	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 got	obj
45	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 got	xcomp
46	till	till	SCONJ	_	48 came	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 came	nsubj
48	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 safe	advcl
49	just	just	ADV	_	52 bottom	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 bottom	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 bottom	det
52	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 came	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 broken	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 broken	cc
55	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 one	advmod
56	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	58 broken	nsubj:pass
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 broken	aux:pass
58	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 came	conj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the giant's daughter				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	help	to-infinitive		Nix			tree rules
3	cut off	past	daughter	daughter's fingers and daughter's toes			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector finger=Eventuality
4	make	past	daughter not said here	steps of steps			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset step=Product
5	clomb		giant				tree rules
6	get	past	giant not said here	all eggs		safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus
7	come	past	giant		the bottom		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Initial_Location
8	break	past · passive		one			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
9	step			steps = step			nom step «act transitive»: of=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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