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title: 'O catch me, I pray you, that salmon under the rock!' said Covan son… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'O catch me, I pray you, that salmon under the rock!' said Covan son of Gorla. Who acts: I, Covan son. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 46

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

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**Who acts:** I, Covan son · **What happens:** catch, pray, say · **To what, where:** me, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:31:46
# text = 'O catch me, I pray you, that salmon under the rock!' said Covan son of Gorla.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
12	under	under	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	Covan	Covan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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.

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**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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