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title: As she trod cautiously through dim corridors Becfola was glad that,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As she trod cautiously through dim corridors Becfola was glad that, saving the guards, no creature was astir, and that for some time yet she need account to no person for her movements. Who acts: light, Becfola, creature. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV, with its depe
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 2

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As she trod cautiously through dim corridors Becfola was glad that, saving the guards, no creature was astir, and that for some time yet she need account to no person for her movements.

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**Who acts:** light, Becfola, creature · **What happens:** tread, be, save, need, move · **To what, where:** dim corridors, guards, account

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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 (light, Becfola, creature), 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:pg2892:43:2
# text = As she trod cautiously through dim corridors Becfola was glad that, saving the guards, no creature was astir, and that for some time yet she need account to no person for her movements.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trod	tread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	corridors	corridor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	saving	save	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	astir	astir	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
30	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tread** | past | light |  |  | dim corridors |  | cautiously *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through corridor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is** | past | Becfola | dim corridors *not said here* |  |  |  | dim corridors *obl*; glad *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | Becfola *not said here* | the guards |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guard=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | no creature |  |  |  |  | astir *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **need** | present | light | account |  |  | yet | to no person for light's movements | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot account=Theme |
| 6 | **move** |  | light |  |  |  |  |  | nom movement «act 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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