English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 21

Suppose you and our daughter 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!”

Who acts: you, father, mallet · What happens: suppose, marry, have, be, come down, draw · To what, where: you, son, cellar, beer, head, father · 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, father, 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	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 married	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 daughter	cc
4	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 daughter	nmod:poss
5	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 you	conj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 married	aux:pass
7	to	to	PART	_	9 married	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 married	aux:pass
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Suppose	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
13	to	to	PART	_	14 have	mark
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Suppose	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 son	det
16	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grow	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 grow	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 grow	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 grow	cop
21	to	to	PART	_	22 grow	mark
22	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 grow	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 come	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 come	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	28 come	mark
28	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	ccomp
29	down	down	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 cellar	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cellar	det
32	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 draw	mark
34	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	28 come	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 beer	det
36	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 draw	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 fall	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 fall	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 mallet	det
40	mallet	mallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fall	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 fall	cop
42	to	to	PART	_	43 fall	mark
43	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Suppose	parataxis
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 head	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 head	nmod:poss
46	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 fall	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 kill	cc
48	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 fall	conj
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 kill	obj
50	!	!	PUNCT	_	43 fall	punct
51	”	"	PUNCT	_	43 fall	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		you			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	father			grow property	tree rules
5	come down	past			the cellar	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into 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		father's head	fall property	tree rules
8	kill	infinitive	the mallet not said here	father			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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