English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 67

And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch which would keep Nix Nought Nothing awake as long as the gardener's daughter liked.

Who acts: daughter, hen wife, unspelling catch · What happens: go, teach, unspell, keep, like · To what, where: unspelling catch, daughter, Nix

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 (daughter, hen wife, unspelling catch), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 went	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 wife	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wife	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wife	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 hen	punct
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taught	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 taught	nsubj
11	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wife	acl:relcl
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taught	iobj
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 catch	det
14	unspelling	unspell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 catch	amod
15	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taught	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 keep	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	aux
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 catch	acl:relcl
19	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
20	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	21 Nothing	compound
21	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 keep	obj
22	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Nothing	amod
23	as	as	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 keep	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 liked	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 gardener	det
27	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 daughter	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 gardener	case
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 liked	nsubj
30	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 long	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	daughter			to the hen wife	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location
2	teach speech: other	past	the hen wife	a unspelling catch	daughter		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient catch=Topic
3	unspell	gerund					tree rules
4	keep	would	a unspelling catch	Nix		long property	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nix=Theme nothing=Attribute
5	like	past	the gardener's daughter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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