English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 46

Molly says: “I would put you into a sack, and I'd put the cat inside with you, and the dog aside you, and a needle and thread and a shears, and I'd hang you up upon the wall, and I'd go to the wood, and choose the thickest stick I could get, and I would come home, and take you down, and bang you till you were dead.”

Who acts: Molly, you · What happens: say, put, hang up, go, choose, get · To what, where: you, sack, cat, wall, wood, thickest stick · 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 (Molly, you), 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	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 put	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 sack	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sack	det
11	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
15	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 put	aux
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 put	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cat	det
18	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	inside	inside	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 you	case
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 put	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 dog	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 dog	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
26	aside	aside	ADP	_	27 you	case
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 dog	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 needle	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 needle	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 needle	det
31	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 thread	cc
33	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 needle	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shears	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shears	det
36	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 needle	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hang	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hang	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 hang	nsubj
40	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 hang	aux
41	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 hang	obj
43	up	up	ADP	_	41 hang	compound:prt
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 wall	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 wall	det
46	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 hang	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 go	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 go	cc
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 go	nsubj
50	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 go	aux
51	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 wood	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 wood	det
54	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 go	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 choose	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 choose	cc
57	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 go	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 stick	det
59	thickest	thick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	60 stick	amod
60	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 choose	obj
61	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	63 get	nsubj
62	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 get	aux
63	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 stick	acl:relcl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 come	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 come	cc
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 come	nsubj
67	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 come	aux
68	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 go	parataxis
69	home	home	ADV	_	68 come	advmod
70	,	,	PUNCT	_	72 take	punct
71	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 take	cc
72	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	68 come	conj
73	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	72 take	obj
74	down	down	ADP	_	72 take	compound:prt
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 bang	punct
76	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 bang	cc
77	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	parataxis
78	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	77 bang	obj
79	till	till	SCONJ	_	82 dead	mark
80	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	82 dead	nsubj
81	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	82 dead	cop
82	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	77 bang	advcl
83	.	.	PUNCT	_	77 bang	punct
84	”	"	PUNCT	_	77 bang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Molly					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put in a quote	would	Molly		you	a sack	the dog aside you obl	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal
3	put in a quote	would	Molly		the cat		with you; inside property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cat=Goal
4	hang up in a quote	would	Molly	you		the wall		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme upon wall=Destination
5	go in a quote	would	Molly			the wood		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
6	choose in a quote	infinitive	Molly not said here	the thickest stick				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
7	get in a quote	could	Molly	the thickest stick not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus
8	come in a quote	would	Molly				home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	take down in a quote	infinitive	Molly not said here	you				vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
10	bang in a quote	present		you				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
11	is in a quote	past	you				dead property	tree rules

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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