English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 5

So his cake was very small; yet small as it was, his mother asked him if he was willing to take the half of it with her blessing, telling him that, if he chose rather to take the whole, he would only get it with her curse.

Who acts: cake, mother, bit · What happens: be, ask, take, tell, choose, get · To what, where: bit, half, that, whole, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cake, mother, bit), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 cake	nmod:poss
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 small	punct
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 small	advmod
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 small	appos
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 was	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 was	nsubj
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 small	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 asked	nsubj
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 willing	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 willing	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 willing	cop
21	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 asked	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	23 take	mark
23	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 willing	xcomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 half	det
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 take	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 half	nmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 blessing	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 blessing	nmod:poss
30	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 telling	punct
32	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 asked	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 telling	iobj
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 telling	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 chose	punct
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 chose	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 chose	nsubj
38	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 asked	conj
39	rather	rather	ADV	_	41 take	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 take	mark
41	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 chose	xcomp
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 whole	det
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 take	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 get	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	nsubj
46	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 get	aux
47	only	only	ADV	_	48 get	advmod
48	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 take	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 get	obj
50	with	with	ADP	_	52 curse	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 curse	nmod:poss
52	curse	curse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 get	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 small	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	bit's cake			small property	tree rules
2	be	past	cake				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	bit's mother		bit		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	bit			willing property	tree rules
5	take	to-infinitive	bit not said here	the half of cake		with mother's blessing	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	bit's mother not said here	that	bit		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient that=Topic
7	choose a condition, not said to happen	past	bit				tree rules
8	take	to-infinitive	bit not said here	the whole			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Theme
9	get	would	bit	cake		with mother's curse	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
10	bless		mother				nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent
11	curse		mother				nom curse «communication 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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