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title: “Indeed,” said Art to himself, “there is so much to beware of that I… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed,” said Art to himself, “there is so much to beware of that I will beware of nothing. Who acts: Art. 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 37

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

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**Who acts:** Art · **What happens:** say, be, beware · **To what, where:** Art · **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 (Art), 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:pg2892:70:37
# text = “Indeed,” said Art to himself, “there is so much to beware of that I will beware of nothing.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Art	Art	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	beware	beware	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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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