Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 30

“You will not eat any of my salmon while I am away?” he asked.

Who acts: You, poet · What happens: not eat, be, ask · To what, where: any · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. 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), 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	_	5 eat	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 eat	advmod
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 eat	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 salmon	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 salmon	nmod:poss
9	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 any	nmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 away	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 away	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 away	cop
13	away	away	ADV	_	5 eat	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not eat in a quote	future	You	any		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Patient
2	is in a quote	present	poet		away property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	poet			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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: «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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