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title: And he gazed on her benevolently and firmly and carefully when he sa… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he gazed on her benevolently and firmly and carefully when he said that, so that her regard could not stray otherwhere. Who acts: past, regard, wife. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 73

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And he gazed on her benevolently and firmly and carefully when he said that, so that her regard could not stray otherwhere.

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**Who acts:** past, regard, wife · **What happens:** gaze, say, not stray, regard · **To what, where:** otherwhere · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (past, regard, wife), 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:pg2892:40:73
# text = And he gazed on her benevolently and firmly and carefully when he said that, so that her regard could not stray otherwhere.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	benevolently	benevolently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	firmly	firmly	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	22	mark	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	stray	stray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
23	otherwhere	otherwhere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | past |  |  |  |  | benevolently *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | past |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **stray** | could | wife's regard | otherwhere |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location otherwhere=Theme |
| 4 | **regard** |  | wife |  |  |  |  |  | nom regard «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «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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