English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 52

The giant's wife begged that Molly would take her up into the sack till she would see what Molly saw.

Who acts: wife, Molly · What happens: beg, take up, see · To what, where: wife, sack · 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 (wife, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	nsubj
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 take	mark
7	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 take	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	ccomp
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 take	compound:prt
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 sack	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sack	det
14	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 see	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 take	advcl
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 saw	obj
20	Molly	Molly	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the giant's wife			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take up	would	Molly	wife	the sack	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into sack=Destination
3	see	would	Molly			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	see	past	Molly			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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