English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 10

Suppose we was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down to the cellar to draw the beer, and the mallet was to fall on his head and kill him, what a dreadful thing it would be!”

Who acts: you, matter, mallet · What happens: suppose, marry, have, be, come down, draw · To what, where: we, son, cellar, beer, head, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, matter, mallet), 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	Suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 married	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 married	aux:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	6 married	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 married	aux:pass
6	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Suppose	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 have	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
10	to	to	PART	_	11 have	mark
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 son	det
13	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 grow	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grow	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 grow	mark
19	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 grow	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 come	cc
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	ccomp
26	down	down	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 cellar	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cellar	det
29	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 draw	mark
31	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 come	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 beer	det
33	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 draw	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 fall	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 fall	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mallet	det
37	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 fall	cop
39	to	to	PART	_	40 fall	mark
40	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	parataxis
41	on	on	ADP	_	43 head	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 head	nmod:poss
43	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 kill	cc
45	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 fall	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 kill	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 thing	punct
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	51 thing	nsubj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 thing	det
50	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 thing	amod
51	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 fall	parataxis
52	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 be	nsubj
53	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 be	aux
54	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 thing	acl:relcl
55	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct
56	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Suppose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suppose	imperative	you not said here				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	marry	past · passive		we			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	have	past		a son			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	is	past	matter			grow property	tree rules
5	come down	past			the cellar	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cellar=Initial_Location
6	draw	to-infinitive		the beer			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beer=Theme
7	is	past	the mallet		matter's head	fall property	tree rules
8	kill	infinitive	the mallet not said here	matter			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	thing						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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