The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 5

So his cake was very sma’; yet sma’ as it was, his mother asked if he was willing to take the half of it with her blessing, telling him that, if he chose rather to have the hale, he would only get it wi’ her curse.

Who acts: cake, sma, ground, part · What happens: be, ask, take, tell, choose, have · To what, where: sma, mother, half, that, ground, hale · 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 (cake, sma, ground, part), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 sma	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cake	nmod:poss
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sma	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sma	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sma	advmod
6	sma	sma	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 sma	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 sma	punct
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 sma	cc
10	sma	sma	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sma	conj
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 sma	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 mother	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mother	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 mother	cop
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mother	punct
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sma	advcl
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 willing	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 willing	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 willing	cop
22	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 asked	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	24 take	mark
24	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 willing	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 half	det
26	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 take	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 half	nmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 blessing	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 blessing	nmod:poss
31	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 take	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 telling	punct
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 asked	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 telling	iobj
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 telling	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 chose	punct
37	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 chose	mark
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 chose	nsubj
39	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	conj
40	rather	rather	ADV	_	39 chose	advmod
41	to	to	PART	_	42 have	mark
42	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 chose	xcomp
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hale	det
44	hale	hale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 have	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 get	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 get	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 get	aux
48	only	only	ADV	_	49 get	advmod
49	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 asked	conj
50	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 get	obj
51	wi	wi	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 get	obj
52	’	'	ADP	_	54 curse	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 curse	nmod:poss
54	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 get	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ground's cake	sma yet sma			tree rules
2	is a	past	cake	ground's mother			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	sma yet sma				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	ground			willing property	tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	ground not said here	the half of sma		with part's blessing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	sma yet sma not said here	that	ground		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
7	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	ground				tree rules
8	have	to-infinitive	ground not said here	the hale			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hale=Patient
9	get	would	ground	cake		' part's curse	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary wi=Theme
10	bless		part				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	curse		part				nom curse «communication 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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