Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 152

Now you must kill me, strip the flesh from my bones, take all those bones apart, and use them as steps for climbing the tree.

Who acts: you · What happens: kill, strip, take, use, climb · To what, where: me, flesh, bones, tree

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 (you), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 kill	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 kill	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 kill	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strip	punct
7	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 kill	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flesh	det
9	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strip	obj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 bones	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bones	nmod:poss
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 strip	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 take	punct
14	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	parataxis
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 bones	det:predet
16	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	17 bones	det
17	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 take	obj
18	apart	apart	ADV	_	14 take	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 use	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 use	cc
21	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 take	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 use	obj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 steps	case
24	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 use	obl
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 climbing	mark
26	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 use	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tree	det
28	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 climbing	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	must	you	me		now		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	strip	infinitive	you not said here	the flesh	my bones			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme from bone=Source
3	take	infinitive		all bones			apart property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
4	use	infinitive		bones = bone			as steps	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as step=Attribute
5	climb	gerund		the tree				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

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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