Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 8
“Be reassured, my darling, I am no beggarman, and my quality is not more gross than is the blood of the most delicate prince in this assembly.
Who acts: Dear heart, quality · What happens: reassure, be, not be · To what, where: darling, beggarman
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear heart, quality), 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 | _ | 3 reassured | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reassured | aux:pass |
| 3 | reassured | reassure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 darling | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 darling | nmod:poss |
| 6 | darling | darling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reassured | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beggarman | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 beggarman | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beggarman | cop |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 beggarman | det |
| 11 | beggarman | beggarman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reassured | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gross | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gross | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 quality | nmod:poss |
| 15 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gross | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 gross | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 gross | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 gross | advmod |
| 19 | gross | gross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 reassured | parataxis |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 blood | case |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 blood | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 blood | det |
| 23 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gross | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 prince | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 prince | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 delicate | advmod |
| 27 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prince | amod |
| 28 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 blood | nmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 assembly | case |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 assembly | det |
| 31 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 prince | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reassured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reassure in a quote | infinitive · passive | my darling | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Dear heart = heart | no beggarman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | present | my quality | gross property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | than the blood; of the delicate prince in this assembly | tree rules |
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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