English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 77

Then were they greatly astonished when she spoke of Nix Nought Nothing, and asked where he was, and she said: “He that sits there in the chair.”

Who acts: king, lady, Nix · What happens: be, speak, ask, say, sit · To what, where: chair · 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 (king, lady, Nix), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 astonished	advmod
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	cop
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 astonished	nsubj
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	5 astonished	advmod
5	astonished	astonish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 spoke	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 spoke	nsubj
8	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 Nothing	case
10	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Nothing	nsubj
11	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 Nothing	compound
12	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 spoke	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	conj
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 was	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 was	nsubj
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 astonished	conj
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 sits	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 sits	punct
25	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sits	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sits	nsubj
27	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 sits	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 chair	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chair	det
31	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sits	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 sits	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 sits	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		then	astonish, greatly property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	lady			of Nothing	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ask speech: ask	past	king not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	past	Nix				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	lady				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sit in a quote	present	Nix	the chair; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location

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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