Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 101

"Say on," says the king's son.

Who acts: son · What happens: say on, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 Say	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 son	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 king	case
10	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say on speech: assert in a quote	infinitive							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the king's son						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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