English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 71

And he told her that a stranger was to marry his daughter, and took her up to the castle and showed her the man: and it was Nix Nought Nothing asleep in a chair.

Who acts: catch, stranger · What happens: tell, be, take up, show · To what, where: lady, daughter, castle, man, Nothing · 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 (catch, stranger), 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 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 marry	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stranger	det
7	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 marry	cop
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	obj
17	up	up	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 castle	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 castle	det
20	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 showed	cc
22	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 showed	iobj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 man	det
25	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 showed	obj
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 Nothing	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 Nothing	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Nothing	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 Nothing	cop
30	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Nothing	nsubj
31	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	32 Nothing	compound
32	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	25 man	appos
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 Nothing	amod
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 chair	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 chair	det
36	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asleep	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	catch		lady			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is not said to happen	past	a stranger				marry property	tree rules
3	take up	past	catch not said here	daughter		the castle		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to castle=Destination
4	show	past	catch not said here	the man	daughter			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient man=Topic
5	is a	past	stranger	Nothing				tree rules

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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