English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 51

But just as he was stretching out his hand to catch Nix Nought Nothing his daughter took out her magic flask and dashed it on the ground.

Who acts: giant · What happens: stretch out, catch, take out, dash · To what, where: hand, Nought, magic flask, flask

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), 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	_	6 stretching	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	6 stretching	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 stretching	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stretching	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stretching	aux
6	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 took	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 stretching	compound:prt
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hand	nmod:poss
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretching	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 catch	mark
11	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretching	advcl
12	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Nought	compound
13	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	11 catch	obj
14	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Nought	appos
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catch	obj
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 flask	nmod:poss
20	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 flask	amod
21	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 dashed	cc
23	dashed	dash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 took	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 dashed	obj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dashed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past · progressive	giant	giant's hand		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	catch	to-infinitive	giant not said here	Nought		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent nought=Beneficiary daughter=Theme
3	take out	past		daughter's magic flask		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flask=Theme
4	dash	past		flask	on the ground	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument on ground=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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