Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 7

I fear, however, I have not been quite consistent, though the _you's_ addressed to the apple-pips are grammatically correct as applied to the pair of lovers.

Who acts: I · What happens: fear, not be, address, be, apply · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 fear	nsubj
2	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fear	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 fear	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 consistent	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 consistent	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 consistent	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 consistent	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 consistent	cop
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 consistent	advmod
11	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fear	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 addressed	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 addressed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 addressed	det
15	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 addressed	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 addressed	nsubj:pass
17	's	's	PART	_	16 you	case
18	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 addressed	punct
19	addressed	address	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 consistent	parataxis
20	to	to	ADP	_	24 pips	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pips	det
22	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pips	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 apple	punct
24	pips	pip	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 correct	obl
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 correct	cop
26	grammatically	grammatically	ADV	_	27 correct	advmod
27	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 addressed	conj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 applied	mark
29	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 correct	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 pair	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pair	det
32	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 applied	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 lovers	case
34	lovers	lover	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 pair	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fear	present	I		however property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	not is	present · perfect	I		consistent property	tree rules
3	address	participle · passive		you		vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
4	is	present			to the apple pips; correct, grammatically property	tree rules
5	apply	participle			to the pair of lovers	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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