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title: “It is not easy,” Crede’ replied eagerly, “and if you will take my a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “It is not easy,” Crede’ replied eagerly, “and if you will take my advice--” Who acts: you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IX, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IX, sentence 15

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“It is not easy,” Crede’ replied eagerly, “and if you will take my advice--”

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not be, reply, take · **To what, where:** Crede, advice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:70:15
# text = “It is not easy,” Crede’ replied eagerly, “and if you will take my advice--”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	expl	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	Crede	Crede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
11	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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