The Aesop for Children, The Peacock and the Crane, sentence 6

"Follow me if you can," he said.

Who acts: you, Peacock · What happens: follow, say · To what, where: Peacock · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock and the Crane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Peacock), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Follow	punct
2	Follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Follow	obj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 can	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 can	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Follow	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 can	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 can	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 can	acl:relcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow in a quote	imperative	you not said here	Peacock					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Peacock						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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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