English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 57
So Nix Nought Nothing told her to wait there while he went and found out a lodging for the night.
Who acts: Nothing, giant · What happens: tell, wait, go, find out · To what, where: daughter, lodging · 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 (Nothing, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Nothing | compound |
| 3 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 2 Nix | flat |
| 4 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 wait | mark |
| 8 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 wait | advmod |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 went | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 went | nsubj |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wait | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 went | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 found | compound:prt |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lodging | det |
| 17 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lodging | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Nothing | daughter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | Nothing not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | giant | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find out | past | giant not said here | a lodging | for the night | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lodging=Topic |
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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