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title: Becfola had pains in her legs from the way she had wrapped them abou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Becfola had pains in her legs from the way she had wrapped them about the branch, but there was no part of her that did not ache, for a lady does not sit with any ease upon a tree. Who acts: Becfola, that, lady. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its dependency tr
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 2

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Becfola had pains in her legs from the way she had wrapped them about the branch, but there was no part of her that did not ache, for a lady does not sit with any ease upon a tree.

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**Who acts:** Becfola, that, lady · **What happens:** have, wrap, be, not ache, not sit · **To what, where:** pains, legs, part, tree

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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, that, lady), 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:pg2892:42:2
# text = Becfola had pains in her legs from the way she had wrapped them about the branch, but there was no part of her that did not ache, for a lady does not sit with any ease upon a tree.
1	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	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	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	ache	ache	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | Becfola | pains |  | Becfola's legs |  | from the way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient |
| 2 | **wrap** | past · perfect | Becfola | pains *= pain* |  |  |  | about the branch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme about branch=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | no part |  |  |  | of Becfola | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **ache** | past · do-support | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **not** **sit** | present · do-support | a lady |  |  | a tree |  | with any ease | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location |

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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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