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title: Becfola followed, feeling ruefully that something new to her experie… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Becfola followed, feeling ruefully that something new to her experience had arrived; “for,” she thought, “it is usual that young men should not speak to me now that I am the mate of a king, but it is very unusual that young men should not look at me.” Who acts: Becfola, something, experience, young 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14

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Becfola followed, feeling ruefully that something new to her experience had arrived; “for,” she thought, “it is usual that young men should not speak to me now that I am the mate of a king, but it is very unusual that young men should not look at me.”

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**Who acts:** Becfola, something, experience, young men · **What happens:** follow, feel, arrive, think, be, not speak · **To what, where:** Becfola, mate · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becfola, something, experience, young men), 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:pg2892:42:14
# text = Becfola followed, feeling ruefully that something new to her experience had arrived; “for,” she thought, “it is usual that young men should not speak to me now that I am the mate of a king, but it is very unusual that young men should not look at me.”
1	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	ruefully	ruefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
8	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
35	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
37	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	advcl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	unusual	unusual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	54	nsubj	_	_
52	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	advcl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Becfola |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **feel** | gerund | Becfola *not said here* |  |  |  |  | ruefully *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **arrive** | past · perfect | something |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Becfola |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | experience |  |  |  |  | usual *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | should | young men |  | Becfola |  | now |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Becfola | the mate |  |  |  | of a king | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | experience |  |  |  |  | unusual *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | should | young men |  |  |  |  | at Becfola | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |
| 10 | **experience** |  | Becfola |  |  |  |  |  | nom experience «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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