Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 184

Stop a while," says she, "and I will play a trick to the old hero."

Who acts: you, I · What happens: stop, say, play · To what, where: filly, trick · 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, I), 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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 while	det
3	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	parataxis
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 says	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 she	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 play	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 play	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 play	aux
13	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 trick	det
15	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 hero	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hero	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hero	amod
19	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 play	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		while		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present		filly			tree rules
3	play	future	I	a trick		to the old hero	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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