Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 30

“Indeed, my dear heart and my son, we are not scolding you, but you must try not to look so terribly thoughtful when you think.

Who acts: we, you · What happens: not scold, try, not look, think · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1194): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 scolding	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 scolding	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod:poss
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 heart	amod
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 scolding	vocative
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 son	cc
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 son	nmod:poss
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heart	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 heart	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 scolding	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 scolding	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 scolding	advmod
14	scolding	scold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 scolding	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 try	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 try	cc
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 try	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 try	aux
20	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 scolding	conj
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 look	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 look	mark
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 try	xcomp
24	so	so	ADV	_	26 thoughtful	advmod
25	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	26 thoughtful	advmod
26	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 look	xcomp
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	29 think	advmod
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
29	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 look	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 scolding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not scold in a quote	present · progressive	we	you	my dear heart and my son vocative; indeed property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	try in a quote	must	you			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	not look not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		thoughtful property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	think speech: other in a quote	present	you			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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