Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 166

She rose up before him, and said: "Didn't I tell you not to leave a bone of my body without stepping on it?

Who acts: daughter · What happens: rise up, say, not tell, not leave, step · To what, where: you, bone, body · 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 (daughter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	nsubj
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rose	compound:prt
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rose	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rose	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 leave	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 leave	mark
18	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tell	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bone	det
20	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 leave	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 body	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 body	nmod:poss
23	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bone	nmod
24	without	without	SCONJ	_	25 stepping	mark
25	stepping	step	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 leave	advcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stepping	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	rise up	past	daughter				before son	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	say speech: ask	past	daughter not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert in a quote	past · do-support	daughter		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not leave not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive		a bone of my body				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
5	step in a quote	gerund				body		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory

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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