Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIII, sentence 53

“But be as careful of it, my pulse, be as frightened of it as you are of the man of Dana.”

Who acts: you, my · What happens: be, frighten, pulse

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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	_	5 careful	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 careful	cc
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	cop
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 careful	case
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 careful	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pulse	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pulse	nmod:poss
10	pulse	pulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 careful	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 frightened	punct
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 frightened	aux:pass
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 careful	parataxis
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 frightened	obl
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 man	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 man	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 man	cop
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 man	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frightened	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 Dana	case
24	Dana	Dana	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here	of spear; careful property	tree rules
2	frighten in a quote	infinitive · passive		of spear	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	is in a quote	present	you	of the man; of Dana	tree rules
4	pulse in a quote		my		nom pulse «event transitive»: poss=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: «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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