--- title: Just suppose, if our daughter and her sweetheart was to be married,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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:pg7439:7:15 # text = 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!” 1 Just just ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 suppose suppose VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 5 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 dislocated _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 sweetheart sweetheart NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 have have VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 33 down down ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 into into ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 cellar cellar NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 draw draw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 beer beer NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 mallet mallet NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 cop _ _ 46 to to PART TO _ 47 mark _ _ 47 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 48 on on ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 47 conj _ _ 53 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 55 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 58 nsubj _ _ 56 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 parataxis _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 61 nsubj _ _ 60 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 61 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 58 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 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** *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. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/16/) - ↑ back to [The Three Sillies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/7/)