English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 78

Then they ran to him and kissed him and called him their own dear son; so they called for the gardener's daughter and made her sing her charm, and he wakened, and told them all that the giant's daughter had done for him, and of all her kindness.

Who acts: king, daughter, Nix · What happens: run, kiss, call, make, sing, waken · To what, where: Nix, daughter, charm, king · 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, daughter, 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	3 ran	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ran	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 kissed	cc
7	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 kissed	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 called	cc
10	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 kissed	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 called	obj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 son	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 son	amod
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 son	amod
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 called	advmod
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 called	nsubj
19	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	24 daughter	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 gardener	det
22	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 daughter	nmod:poss
23	's	's	PART	_	22 gardener	case
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 made	cc
26	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 made	obj
28	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 made	xcomp
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 charm	nmod:poss
30	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sing	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wakened	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wakened	cc
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wakened	nsubj
34	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 told	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 told	cc
37	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 told	iobj
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 done	det:predet
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 done	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 giant	det
42	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 daughter	nmod:poss
43	's	's	PART	_	42 giant	case
44	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 done	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 done	aux
46	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 told	ccomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 done	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 kindness	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 kindness	cc
51	of	of	ADP	_	54 kindness	case
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 kindness	det
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 kindness	nmod:poss
54	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	king		Nix	then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result
2	kiss	past	king not said here	Nix				vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	call	past	king not said here		Nix			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	call	past	king				for the gardener's daughter	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for daughter=Recipient
5	make	past	king not said here	daughter				tree rules
6	sing speech: express	infinitive	daughter not said here	daughter's charm				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location charm=Theme
7	waken	past	Nix					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
8	tell speech: assert	past	king not said here		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
9	do	past · perfect	the giant's daughter				for Nix	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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