English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 28

He said: “Well, Molly, you are a clever girl, and you have managed well; but, if you would manage better, and go back, and steal the giant's sword that hangs on the back of his bed, I would give your eldest sister my eldest son to marry.”

Who acts: king, you, sword · What happens: say, be, manage, go back, steal, hang · To what, where: clever girl, sword, back, eldest sister · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, sword), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Molly	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Molly	punct
5	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 Molly	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Well	punct
7	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 girl	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 girl	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 girl	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 girl	det
12	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 girl	amod
13	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Molly	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 managed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 managed	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 managed	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 managed	aux
18	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 said	conj
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 managed	advmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 manage	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 manage	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 but	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 manage	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 manage	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 manage	aux
26	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 manage	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 go	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 go	cc
30	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 manage	conj
31	back	back	ADV	_	30 go	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 steal	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 steal	cc
34	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 manage	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 giant	det
36	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sword	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 giant	case
38	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 steal	obj
39	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 hangs	nsubj
40	hangs	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 sword	acl:relcl
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 back	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 back	det
43	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 hangs	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 bed	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bed	nmod:poss
46	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 back	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 give	punct
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	50 give	nsubj
49	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 give	aux
50	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 manage	conj
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 sister	nmod:poss
52	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	53 sister	amod
53	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	iobj
54	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 son	nmod:poss
55	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	56 son	amod
56	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 give	vocative
57	to	to	PART	_	58 marry	mark
58	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 son	acl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 manage	punct
60	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	you	a clever girl				tree rules
3	manage in a quote	present · perfect	you				well property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	manage a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	you				good property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	go back in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
6	steal in a quote	present	you not said here	the giant's sword				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme
7	hang in a quote	present	the giant's sword			the back of king's bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location
8	give in a quote	would	king		your eldest sister		my eldest son vocative	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Theme
9	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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