Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 169

"Now," says she, "go home with the eggs quickly, and you will get me to marry to-night if you can know me.

Who acts: you, me · What happens: say, go, get, marry, know · To what, where: laddie, me · 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 (you, me), 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	_	5 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 says	ccomp
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 eggs	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 eggs	det
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 go	obl
14	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 get	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 get	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 get	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 get	aux
19	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 go	parataxis
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 get	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 marry	mark
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 get	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 night	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 to	punct
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obl
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 know	mark
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
28	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 know	aux
29	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 marry	advcl
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		laddie	now		tree rules
2	go in a quote	infinitive				with the eggs; home, quickly property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with egg=Beneficiary
3	get in a quote	future	you	me			tree rules
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	me not said here		night		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=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: «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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