The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 41

'Surely I, good fisher as I am, can catch him,' said Covan son of Gorla.

Who acts: I · What happens: catch, say · To what, where: man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	3 I	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	3 I	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fisher	punct
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fisher	amod
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 I	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 am	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 am	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fisher	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 catch	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 catch	aux
12	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 I	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 catch	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 catch	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 catch	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 son	compound
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Gorla	case
20	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 son	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	can	I not said here	man					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	I						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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