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title: No words can describe how delightful Muirne was--she took the branch… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: No words can describe how delightful Muirne was--she took the branch; and as to Tuiren, a man could not look at her without becoming angry or dejected. Who acts: words, mother, man. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 14

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No words can describe how delightful Muirne was--she took the branch; and as to Tuiren, a man could not look at her without becoming angry or dejected.

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**Who acts:** words, mother, man · **What happens:** describe, be, take, not look, become, deject · **To what, where:** branch

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, mother, 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:pg2892:28:14
# text = No words can describe how delightful Muirne was--she took the branch; and as to Tuiren, a man could not look at her without becoming angry or dejected.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	describe	describe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
7	Muirne	Muirne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Tuiren	Tuiren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	dejected	deject	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **describe** | can | no words |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | no words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | mother | the branch |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **look** | could | a man |  |  |  |  | as Tuiren; at mother | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at her=Theme |
| 5 | **become** | gerund | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **deject** | participle | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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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