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title: They took fright at the spectacle, and once or twice a woman screame… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They took fright at the spectacle, and once or twice a woman screamed hysterically, and was bundled away with a companion’s hand clapped on her mouth, so that the ear of their master should not be affronted. Who acts: groups, woman, hand. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 17

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They took fright at the spectacle, and once or twice a woman screamed hysterically, and was bundled away with a companion’s hand clapped on her mouth, so that the ear of their master should not be affronted.

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**Who acts:** groups, woman, hand · **What happens:** take, scream, bundle away, clap, not affront · **To what, where:** fright, spectacle, mouth, ear

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (groups, woman, hand), 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:pg2892:3:17
# text = They took fright at the spectacle, and once or twice a woman screamed hysterically, and was bundled away with a companion’s hand clapped on her mouth, so that the ear of their master should not be affronted.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	screamed	scream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	hysterically	hysterically	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	bundled	bundle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
31	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	41	mark	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	fixed	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	affronted	affront	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | groups *= group* | fright |  | the spectacle |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent fright=Theme at spectacle=Asset |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | past | a woman |  |  |  |  | hysterically, once *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bundle away** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 4 | **clap** | past | a companion's hand |  |  | hand's mouth |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mouth=Location |
| 5 | **not** **affront** | should · passive |  | the ear of groups's master |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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