Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 15
“It is not easy,” Crede’ replied eagerly, “and if you will take my advice--”
Who acts: you · What happens: not be, reply, take · To what, where: Crede, advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 easy | advmod |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 8 | Crede | Crede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Crede | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 easy | conj |
| 11 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 10 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 take | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 take | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 take | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | aux |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | parataxis |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 advice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 take | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | Crede | eagerly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme |
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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