Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 16

Tell me or I will fly at you,” and he put his head up, and spread his wings, and tried to look very large and fierce.

Who acts: you, I, goose · What happens: tell, fly, put up, spread, try, look · To what, where: me, head, wings · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, goose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 fly	cc
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fly	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fly	aux
6	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fly	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 fly	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	nsubj
13	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obj
16	up	up	ADP	_	13 put	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spread	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 spread	cc
19	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wings	nmod:poss
21	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 spread	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tried	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tried	cc
24	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spread	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 tried	xcomp
27	very	very	ADV	_	28 large	advmod
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 look	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fierce	cc
30	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 large	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly	future	I			at you	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at you=Location
3	put up in a quote	past	goose	goose's head			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
4	spread in a quote	past		goose's wings			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme
5	try in a quote	past					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	look not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				large property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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🌲 Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 16