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title: “‘Fear not,’ replied the stranger, ‘I am an angel from heaven, sent… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Fear not,’ replied the stranger, ‘I am an angel from heaven, sent to reveal unto thee the fate of thy country. Who acts: Fear, voice. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 19

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“‘Fear not,’ replied the stranger, ‘I am an angel from heaven, sent to reveal unto thee the fate of thy country.

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**Who acts:** Fear, voice · **What happens:** reply, be, send, reveal, fate · **To what, where:** stranger, angel, heaven, fate, country

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear, voice), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:15:19
# text = “‘Fear not,’ replied the stranger, ‘I am an angel from heaven, sent to reveal unto thee the fate of thy country.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	angel	angel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	reveal	reveal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Fear | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | a voice *= voice* | a angel |  | heaven |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **send** *in a quote* | participle |  | a angel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reveal** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the fate of thy country |  |  |  | unto thee | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic |
| 5 | **fate** *in a quote* |  |  | thy country |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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:** «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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