Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 4

"Will you take me?" said the wren.

Who acts: you, wren · What happens: take, say · To what, where: wren · 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, wren), 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	_	4 take	punct
2	Will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 take	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wren	det
10	wren	wren	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take in a quote	future	you		the wren = wren				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
2	say speech: ask	past	the wren						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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