--- title: Suppose we was to be married, and was to have a son, and he was to g… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:7:10 # text = 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!” 1 Suppose suppose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 ccomp _ _ 26 down down ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 draw draw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 mallet mallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 51 nsubj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 parataxis _ _ 52 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 51 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/11/) - ↑ back to [The Three Sillies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/)