Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 43

“You may catch the salmon while I am with you,” the hopeful boy mused.

Who acts: You, poet, hopeful boy · What happens: catch, be, muse · To what, where: salmon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, poet, hopeful boy), 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 catch	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 catch	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 catch	aux
4	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 mused	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 salmon	det
6	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 catch	obj
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 you	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 you	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 you	cop
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 catch	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 catch	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 boy	det
15	hopeful	hopeful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 boy	amod
16	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mused	nsubj
17	mused	muse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 mused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	catch in a quote	may	You	the salmon		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salmon=Theme
2	is in a quote	present	the poet = poet		with you	tree rules
3	muse	past	the hopeful boy			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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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