Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Kingdoms., sentence 26

Catch it if you can!" he said.

Who acts: you, king · What happens: catch, say · To what, where: orange · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Kingdoms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king), 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	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Catch	obj
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 can	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 can	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Catch	advcl
6	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 can	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 can	acl:relcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Catch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	orange					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	king						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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