Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VII, sentence 13

By this sign and this you will know if it is safe to do so, said Fiacuil mac Cona; but in this place, with this sign on it and that, you must not venture a toe.

Who acts: this, it, Fiacuil mac, you · What happens: know, be, do, say, not venture · To what, where: toe, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, it, Fiacuil mac, 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 sign	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sign	det
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 know	cc
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 know	nsubj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 know	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 know	aux
8	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sign	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 safe	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 safe	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	cop
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 know	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 do	mark
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 safe	xcomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	14 do	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sign	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Fiacuil	Fiacuil	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mac	compound
19	mac	Mac	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
20	Cona	Cona	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 mac	flat
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 venture	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 venture	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 place	case
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 place	det
25	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 venture	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sign	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 sign	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 sign	det
29	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 place	appos
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sign	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 that	cc
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 place	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 place	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 venture	nsubj
36	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 venture	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 venture	advmod
38	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 toe	det
40	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 venture	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	future	this				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	it			safe property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Fiacuil mac			by this sign	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not venture	must	you	a toe	this place		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toe=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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