English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 9

The king had never heard that his son was called Nix Nought Nothing, and so he said: “O, I'll give you that and my thanks into the bargain.”

Who acts: king, Nix · What happens: not hear, call, say, give · To what, where: son, that, you · 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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 called	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 called	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 called	aux:pass
10	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heard	ccomp
11	Nix	Nix	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 called	xcomp
12	Nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	13 Nothing	compound
13	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	10 called	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 said	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 give	punct
21	O	o	INTJ	_	25 give	discourse
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 O	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 give	nsubj
24	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 give	aux
25	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 heard	parataxis
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 give	iobj
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 give	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thanks	cc
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 thanks	nmod:poss
30	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 give	discourse
31	into	into	ADP	_	33 bargain	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bargain	det
33	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thanks	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 thanks	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 thanks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not hear	past · perfect	the king			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	call	past · passive		Nix's son		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	Nix			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give in a quote	future	the king = king	that	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/12/9/