English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 55
Why, to near the castle of Nix Nought Nothing's father and mother.
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 castle | punct |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 castle | mark |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Nought | case |
| 8 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Nought | compound |
| 9 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 6 castle | nmod |
| 10 | Nothing | Nothing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Nothing | case |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Nought | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mother | cc |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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