English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 47

But he soon came along after them and was just like to catch 'em up when the giant's daughter called out to Nix Nought Nothing, “Take my hair dagger and throw it down, quick, quick.”

Who acts: sweetheart, daughter · What happens: come along, be, catch up, call out, take, throw down · To what, where: 'em, Nothing, hair dagger, dagger · 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 (sweetheart, 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	along	along	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	after	after	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 like	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 like	cop
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 like	advmod
11	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 catch	mark
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	xcomp
14	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	obj
15	up	up	ADP	_	13 catch	compound:prt
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 called	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 daughter	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 giant	case
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 called	nsubj
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 catch	advcl
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 called	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 Nothing	case
24	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Nothing	nsubj
25	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	26 Nothing	compound
26	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 called	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
29	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 dagger	nmod:poss
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 dagger	compound
32	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 Take	obj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 throw	cc
34	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	29 Take	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 throw	obj
36	down	down	ADP	_	34 throw	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 quick	punct
38	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 throw	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 quick	punct
40	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 quick	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come along	past	sweetheart			after steps = step	along, soon property	tree rules
2	is	past	sweetheart not said here				like property	tree rules
3	catch up not said to happen	to-infinitive	sweetheart not said here	'em = they				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	call out speech: assert	participle	the giant's daughter		Nothing			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nothing=Recipient
5	take in a quote	infinitive		my hair dagger				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme
6	throw down in a quote	infinitive		dagger				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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