English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 68
So she went up to the castle and sang her catch and Nix Nought Nothing was wakened for a bit and they promised to wed him to the gardener's daughter.
Who acts: daughter, king · What happens: go up, sing, waken, promise, wed · To what, where: catch · 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 (daughter, king), 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 | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 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 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 catch | nmod:poss |
| 11 | catch | catch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wakened | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Nix | cc |
| 13 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 catch | conj |
| 14 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 Nothing | compound |
| 15 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 wakened | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wakened | aux:pass |
| 17 | wakened | waken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 sang | ccomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 bit | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bit | det |
| 20 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wakened | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 promised | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 promised | nsubj |
| 23 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 wed | mark |
| 25 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 promised | xcomp |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wed | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 daughter | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gardener | det |
| 29 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 gardener | case |
| 31 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wed | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | daughter | to the castle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | daughter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | waken | past · passive | daughter's catch and Nix | for a bit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | king | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | wed not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | catch | to the gardener's daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to daughter=Co-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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