English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 15

Just suppose, if our daughter and her sweetheart was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to grow up, and was to come down into 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: son, cellar, beer, head, matter

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	Just	just	ADV	_	2 suppose	advmod
2	suppose	suppose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 married	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 married	mark
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 daughter	nmod:poss
6	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 married	dislocated
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sweetheart	cc
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sweetheart	nmod:poss
9	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 daughter	conj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 married	aux:pass
11	to	to	PART	_	13 married	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 married	aux:pass
13	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 suppose	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 have	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 have	mark
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 suppose	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 son	det
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 grow	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grow	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grow	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 grow	mark
26	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suppose	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 grow	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 come	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 come	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 come	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	32 come	mark
32	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 suppose	conj
33	down	down	ADV	_	32 come	advmod
34	into	into	ADP	_	36 cellar	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 cellar	det
36	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 come	obl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 draw	mark
38	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 come	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 beer	det
40	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 draw	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fall	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 fall	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 mallet	det
44	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fall	nsubj
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 fall	cop
46	to	to	PART	_	47 fall	mark
47	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 suppose	parataxis
48	on	on	ADP	_	50 head	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 head	nmod:poss
50	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fall	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 kill	cc
52	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 fall	conj
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 kill	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 thing	punct
55	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	58 thing	nsubj
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 thing	det
57	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 thing	amod
58	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 fall	parataxis
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 be	nsubj
60	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 be	aux
61	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	58 thing	acl:relcl
62	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 suppose	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 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 a condition, not said to happen	past · passive				our daughter and daughter's sweetheart dislocated	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»
3	have	past	you not said here	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	you not said here		the cellar	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cellar=Initial_Location
6	draw	to-infinitive	you not said here	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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