Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 28
“Do not affront these dangers.
Who acts: you · What happens: do · To what, where: affront
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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 affront | advmod |
| 4 | affront | affront | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obj |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 dangers | det |
| 6 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Do | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | affront | 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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