English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 41

After that the king says to Molly: “Molly, you are a clever girl, but if you would do better yet, and steal the giant's ring that he wears on his finger, I will give you my youngest son for yourself.”

Who acts: king, Molly · What happens: say, be, do, steal, wear, give · To what, where: Molly, clever girl, ring, finger, youngest son · 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, Molly), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 says	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 king	det
4	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Molly	case
7	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Molly	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Molly	punct
10	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 says	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 girl	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 girl	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 girl	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 girl	det
15	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 girl	amod
16	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Molly	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steal	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 steal	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 do	aux
22	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 steal	advcl
23	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	22 do	advmod
24	yet	yet	ADV	_	22 do	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 steal	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 steal	cc
27	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 says	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 giant	det
29	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 ring	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 giant	case
31	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 steal	obj
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 wears	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 wears	nsubj
34	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 steal	advcl
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 finger	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 finger	nmod:poss
37	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 wears	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 give	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 give	aux
41	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 says	ccomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 give	iobj
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 son	nmod:poss
44	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 son	amod
45	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 give	obj
46	for	for	ADP	_	47 yourself	case
47	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 son	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct
49	”	"	PUNCT	_	41 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the king	Molly	Molly		after that		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to molly=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	Molly	a clever girl					tree rules
3	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	would	Molly				yet	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	steal in a quote	present	the king not said here	the giant's ring					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme
5	wear in a quote	present	king			king's finger			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
6	give in a quote	future	the king = king	my youngest son	Molly			for Molly	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient son=Theme for yourself=Asset

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/25/41/