English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 2

I have changed the name so as to retain the _équivoque_ of the giant's reply to the King.

Who acts: I, giant · What happens: change, retain, reply · To what, where: name, équivoque _

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. 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 (I, giant), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 changed	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 changed	aux
3	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changed	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 retain	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 retain	mark
8	to	to	PART	_	9 retain	mark
9	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 changed	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 _	det
11	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 _	punct
12	équivoque	équivoque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 _	amod
13	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 retain	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 reply	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reply	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 giant	case
18	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 _	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 King	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 reply	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	change	present · perfect	I	the name		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
2	retain	to-infinitive	I not said here	the équivoque _ of the giant's reply to the King		tree rules
3	reply		the giant		to the King	nom reply «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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