English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 19

Come here girl, and tell me on what day you were born?”

Who acts: you, day · What happens: come, tell, bear · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, day), 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	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Come	advmod
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Come	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Come	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 day	nsubj
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 born	nsubj:pass
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 day	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			here		girl vocative	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		me		day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	bear	past · passive	day not said here	you					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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.

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