The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 11

But if you should ask him, _he_ would say he is an Eagle."

Who acts: you, Jackdaw · What happens: ask, say, be · To what, where: Jackdaw, Eagle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Jackdaw), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 ask	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 ask	nsubj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ask	aux
5	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	advcl
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ask	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ask	punct
8	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	9 he	punct
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 Eagle	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Eagle	cop
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 Eagle	det
16	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 say	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	should	you		Jackdaw	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	would	Jackdaw			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	Jackdaw	a Eagle		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: «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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