English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 35

Well, the king he says: “Ye've managed well, Molly; but if ye would manage better, and steal the purse that lies below the giant's pillow, I would marry your second sister to my second son.”

Who acts: king, ye, purse · What happens: say, manage, steal, lie, marry · To what, where: Ye, purse, pillow, second 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, ye, purse), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 king	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 managed	punct
9	Ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 managed	nsubj:pass
10	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 managed	aux
11	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 says	ccomp
12	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 managed	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Molly	punct
14	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 managed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 manage	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 manage	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 manage	mark
18	ye	ye	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 manage	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 manage	aux
20	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 manage	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 steal	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 steal	cc
24	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 manage	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 purse	det
26	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 steal	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 lies	nsubj
28	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 purse	acl:relcl
29	below	below	ADP	_	33 pillow	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 giant	det
31	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 pillow	nmod:poss
32	's	's	PART	_	31 giant	case
33	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lies	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 marry	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 marry	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 marry	aux
37	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 manage	conj
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sister	nmod:poss
39	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	40 sister	amod
40	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 marry	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	44 son	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 son	nmod:poss
43	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	44 son	amod
44	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 marry	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 manage	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 manage	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	manage in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Ye		Molly obl; well property	vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	manage a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	ye			good property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	steal in a quote	present		the purse			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location purse=Theme
5	lie in a quote	present	the purse		the giant's pillow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent below pillow=Location
6	marry in a quote	would	the king = king	your second sister		to my second son	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sister=Patient to son=Co-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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