The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 37

She asked whether he would have the hale cake wi’ her malison, or the half wi’ her blessing; and, like his brither, he thought it best to have the hale cake, come o’ the malison what might.

Who acts: other, man · What happens: ask, have, think, come, bless · To what, where: hale cake wi, hale cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, man), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
6	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wi	det
8	hale	hale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wi	amod
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wi	compound
10	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
11	’	'	ADP	_	13 malison	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 malison	nmod:poss
13	malison	malison	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wi	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wi	punct
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 wi	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wi	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 wi	compound
18	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wi	conj
19	’	'	ADP	_	21 blessing	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 blessing	nmod:poss
21	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wi	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 thought	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 thought	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 and	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 brither	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 brither	nmod:poss
27	brither	brither	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 thought	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brither	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 thought	nsubj
30	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 best	expl
32	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 thought	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 have	mark
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 thought	ccomp
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cake	det
36	hale	hale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cake	amod
37	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 have	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	conj
40	o	o	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	’	'	ADP	_	43 malison	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 malison	det
43	malison	malison	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
44	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	43 malison	acl:relcl
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 what	aux
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	other			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	would	man	the hale cake wi or the half wi ' other's blessing	' other's malison	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wi=Patient
3	think speech: other	past	man		like man's brither	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	to-infinitive		the hale cake		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
5	come	infinitive			' the malison	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bless		other			nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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