Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 181
Now," says she, "sleep not, or else you are a dead man.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: bride, dead man · 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), 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 says | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 says | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleep | punct |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 says | obl |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 sleep | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 man | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 man | cc |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 man | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 man | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 man | cop |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sleep | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | bride | now | sleep or a dead man obl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a dead man | else property | tree rules |
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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