English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 45

Nix Nought Nothing took her comb from her hair and threw it down, and out of every one of its prongs there sprung up a fine thick briar in the way of the giant.

Who acts: Nought, prongs · What happens: take, throw down, spring up · To what, where: comb, hair, fine thick briar

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 (Nought, prongs), 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	4 took	nsubj
3	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Nought	appos
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 comb	nmod:poss
6	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hair	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hair	nmod:poss
9	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 threw	cc
11	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 threw	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 threw	compound:prt
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 one	cc
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 one	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 prongs	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 prongs	nmod:poss
22	prongs	prong	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 one	nmod
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 prongs	advmod
24	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 prongs	acl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 sprung	compound:prt
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 briar	det
27	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 briar	amod
28	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 briar	amod
29	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sprung	nsubj:pass
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 way	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 way	det
32	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 briar	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 giant	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 giant	det
35	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 way	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	take	past	Nought	Nothing's comb	Nothing's hair	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent comb=Theme from hair=Initial_Location
2	throw down	past	Nought not said here	comb		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	spring up	participle · passive	comb's prongs not said here	a fine thick briar in the way of the giant		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

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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