English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 37

When his mother put it to him to take the half cake with her blessing, he took it in preference to having the whole with her malison; and yet the half was bigger than what the other lad had got.

Who acts: mother, water, half, other lad · What happens: put, take, have, be, get, bless · To what, where: cake, water, half cake, preference, whole

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, water, half, other lad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7439:1202): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 took	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 take	mark
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 put	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cake	det
11	half	half	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	12 cake	amod
12	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 blessing	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 blessing	nmod:poss
15	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 preference	case
21	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 having	mark
23	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 preference	acl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 whole	det
25	whole	whole	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 having	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 malison	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 malison	nmod:poss
28	malison	malison	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 having	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 bigger	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bigger	cc
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	35 bigger	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 half	det
33	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	35 bigger	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 bigger	cop
35	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 took	conj
36	than	than	ADP	_	37 what	case
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 bigger	obl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 lad	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 lad	amod
40	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 got	nsubj
41	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 got	aux
42	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 what	acl:relcl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	water's mother	cake	water				tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive	water's mother not said here	the half cake				with mother's blessing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
3	take	past	water	cake		preference			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in preference=Location
4	have	gerund	water not said here	the whole				with mother's malison	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient
5	is	past	the half				yet	big property	tree rules
6	get	past · perfect	the other lad						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
7	bless		mother						nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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