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title: But the king spoke first, and what he said so astonished her that th… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the king spoke first, and what he said so astonished her that the explanation and reproach with which her tongue was thrilling fled from it at a stroke, and she could only sit staring and bewildered and tongue-tied. Who acts: king, explanation, heart. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James S
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 11

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But the king spoke first, and what he said so astonished her that the explanation and reproach with which her tongue was thrilling fled from it at a stroke, and she could only sit staring and bewildered and tongue-tied.

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**Who acts:** king, explanation, heart · **What happens:** speak, say, thrill, flee, sit, stare · **To what, where:** tongue · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, explanation, heart), 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:pg2892:43:11
# text = But the king spoke first, and what he said so astonished her that the explanation and reproach with which her tongue was thrilling fled from it at a stroke, and she could only sit staring and bewildered and tongue-tied.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
25	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	stroke	stroke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	only	only	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	staring	stare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBD	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
41	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the king |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 3 | **thrill** | past · progressive | the explanation with heart's tongue and reproach |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | participle | the explanation with heart's tongue and reproach *not said here* |  |  | tongue |  | at a stroke | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **sit** | could | heart |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **stare** | gerund | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **bewilder** | past | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **tie** | participle | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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