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