English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 8
“O give me Nix, Nought, Nothing, and I will carry you over the water on my back.”
Who acts: you, king · What happens: give, carry · To what, where: Nix, king, you, water
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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 give | discourse |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | Nix | Nix | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nought | punct |
| 7 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 Nix | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Nothing | punct |
| 9 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 Nix | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carry | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 carry | aux |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 give | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 back | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 back | nmod:poss |
| 21 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Nix | the king = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient nix=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry in a quote | future | the king = king | you | the water | on my back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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