The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 46

'O catch me, I pray you, that salmon under the rock!' said Covan son of Gorla.

Who acts: I, Covan son · What happens: catch, pray, say · To what, where: me, you · 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, Covan son), 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 catch	punct
2	O	o	PART	_	3 catch	mark
3	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 catch	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pray	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 pray	nsubj
7	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 catch	conj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pray	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 salmon	punct
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 salmon	det
11	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 catch	parataxis
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 rock	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 rock	det
14	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 salmon	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 catch	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 catch	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	compound
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Gorla	case
21	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	catch	infinitive		me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2	pray	present	I	you	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Covan son of Gorla		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: «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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