Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 44

I thought you might have tasted it, and then you would have eaten it on me.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: think, taste, eat · To what, where: fish · 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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tasted	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 tasted	aux
6	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tasted	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 eaten	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 eaten	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 eaten	aux
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 eaten	aux
14	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 thought	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 eaten	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 eaten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	taste	might · perfect	you	fish			vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
3	eat	would · perfect	you	fish	then	on me	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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