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title: “Advise me,” he broke in, “for in truth there is no man standing in… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Advise me,” he broke in, “for in truth there is no man standing in such need of counsel as I do.” Who acts: you, Art, man. 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 16

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“Advise me,” he broke in, “for in truth there is no man standing in such need of counsel as I do.”

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**Who acts:** you, Art, man · **What happens:** advise, break in, be, stand, do, need · **To what, where:** Art, man, such need, counsel · **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, Art, man), 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:pg2892:70:16
# text = “Advise me,” he broke in, “for in truth there is no man standing in such need of counsel as I do.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Advise	advise	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
18	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advise** *speech: other* *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | Art |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **break in** | past | Art |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | no man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stand** *in a quote* | gerund | no man *not said here* |  |  | such need of counsel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in need=Location |
| 5 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Art |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **need** *in a quote* |  |  | counsel |  |  |  |  | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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