English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 6

The young man, thinking he might have to travel a far way, and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions, said he would like to have the whole cake, come of his mother's malison what like; so she gave him the whole cake, and her malison along with it.

Who acts: young man, man, mother · What happens: think, have, travel, not know, get, say · To what, where: far way, other provisions, whole cake, man · 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 (young man, man, mother), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thinking	punct
5	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 man	acl
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
7	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thinking	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 travel	mark
10	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 have	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 travel	obl:unmarked
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knowing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 knowing	cc
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 knowing	advmod
17	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 thinking	advcl
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 get	advmod
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 get	cc
20	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 get	advmod
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knowing	ccomp
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 provisions	amod
25	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 get	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 man	punct
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 like	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 like	aux
30	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 have	mark
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 like	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cake	det
34	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cake	amod
35	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 have	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	42 malison	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 mother	nmod:poss
40	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 malison	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 mother	case
42	malison	malison	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 come	obl
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	42 malison	acl:relcl
44	like	like	INTJ	_	43 what	discourse
45	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 gave	punct
46	so	so	ADV	_	48 gave	advmod
47	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 gave	nsubj
48	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 gave	iobj
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 cake	det
51	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 cake	amod
52	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gave	obj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 malison	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 malison	cc
55	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 malison	nmod:poss
56	malison	malison	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 gave	obl
57	along	along	ADP	_	59 it	case
58	with	with	ADP	_	59 it	case
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 malison	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	the young man not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	might	man				tree rules
3	travel	to-infinitive	man not said here	a far way			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not know	gerund	the young man not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	get	might	man	other provisions			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provision=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	the young man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	like	would	man				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	the whole cake			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
9	come	infinitive	man not said here			of man's mother's malison	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of malison=Initial_Location
10	give	past	mother	the whole cake	man	mother's malison along cake obl	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme

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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