Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 29

And if she asks, 'Did you see any one like me,' say you did, but be sure that you meet me to-morrow morning here, in this place."

Who acts: blow, you · What happens: ask, see, say, do, be, meet · To what, where: one, 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 (blow, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 asks	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 asks	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 see	punct
7	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 see	nsubj
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asks	ccomp
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
16	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sure	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 sure	cc
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 see	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 meet	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 meet	nsubj
25	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	ccomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 meet	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	30 morning	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 morning	compound
30	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	obl
31	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 meet	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 place	punct
33	in	in	ADP	_	35 place	case
34	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	35 place	det
35	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 meet	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	blow					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see	past · do-support	you	any one			like me	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	past	you					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	infinitive	you not said here				sure property	tree rules
6	meet	present	you	me	here	morning		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent

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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