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title: But, although Becfola was moved and horrified by this battle, it was… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But, although Becfola was moved and horrified by this battle, it was in another direction that her interest lay; therefore she soon asked the question which lay next her heart: Who acts: battle, interest, question, Becfola. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III, with its d
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 31

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But, although Becfola was moved and horrified by this battle, it was in another direction that her interest lay; therefore she soon asked the question which lay next her heart:

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**Who acts:** battle, interest, question, Becfola · **What happens:** move, horrify, be, lie, ask, interest · **To what, where:** Becfola, direction, question, heart

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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 (battle, interest, question, Becfola), 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:pg2892:42:31
# text = But, although Becfola was moved and horrified by this battle, it was in another direction that her interest lay; therefore she soon asked the question which lay next her heart:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	horrified	horrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	next	next	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past · passive |  | Becfola |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 2 | **horrify** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by this battle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | battle |  |  | another direction |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lie** | past | Becfola's interest |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | interest | the question |  |  |  | soon, therefore *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
| 6 | **lie** | past | the question | Becfola's heart |  |  |  | next *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme |
| 7 | **interest** |  | Becfola |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «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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