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title: I fear, however, I have not been quite consistent, though the _you's… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Battle of Birds., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, XXIV. Battle of Birds., sentence 7

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg7885:58:7
# text = 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.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
19	addressed	address	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	pips	pip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	grammatically	grammatically	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	applied	apply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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:** «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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