Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XIV, sentence 19

And one can imagine that at this check he might be frightened, for who would be more terrified than a magician who sees his magic fail, and who, knowing of power, will guess at powers of which he has no conception and may well dread.

Who acts: one, magician, Fire · What happens: imagine, frighten, be, see, know, guess · To what, where: Fire, check, magic fail, powers, conception

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XIV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, magician, Fire), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 imagine	cc
2	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 imagine	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	aux
4	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 frightened	mark
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 check	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 check	det
8	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 frightened	obl
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 frightened	nsubj:pass
10	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 frightened	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 frightened	aux:pass
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 imagine	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 terrified	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 terrified	mark
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 terrified	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 terrified	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 terrified	cop
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 terrified	advmod
19	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 frightened	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 magician	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 magician	det
22	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 terrified	obl
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sees	nsubj
24	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 magician	acl:relcl
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fail	nmod:poss
26	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fail	amod
27	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sees	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knowing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 knowing	cc
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 knowing	nsubj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knowing	punct
32	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 terrified	advcl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 power	case
34	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knowing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 guess	punct
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 guess	aux
37	guess	guess	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 imagine	parataxis
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 powers	case
39	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 guess	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 which	case
41	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 has	obl
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 has	nsubj
43	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 powers	acl:relcl
44	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	45 conception	det
45	conception	conception	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 has	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 dread	cc
47	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 dread	aux
48	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 dread	advmod
49	dread	dread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 has	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 imagine	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	imagine	can	one				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	frighten	might · passive		Fire	this check		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	is	would				than a magician; terrified property	tree rules
4	see	present	a magician	Fire's magic fail			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fail=Stimulus
5	know	gerund				of power	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of power=Stimulus
6	guess	future			powers		vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent at power=Value
7	have	present	Fire	no conception		of powers	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conception=Patient
8	dread	may	Fire not said here			well property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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