Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 37

“Indeed,” said Art to himself, “there is so much to beware of that I will beware of nothing.

Who acts: Art · What happens: say, be, beware · To what, where: Art · 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 (Art), 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 said	punct
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Indeed	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Art	Art	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 is	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 much	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 much	advmod
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 beware	mark
16	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 much	acl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 that	case
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 beware	obl
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 beware	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 beware	aux
21	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beware	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 nothing	case
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	21 beware	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Art	Art	indeed property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	is in a quote	present	Art not said here		much property	tree rules
3	beware in a quote	to-infinitive				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	beware in a quote	future	Art		of nothing	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: 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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