--- title: Becfola again broke in, speaking graciously, regally, hastily: “Let… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Becfola again broke in, speaking graciously, regally, hastily: “Let those Brothers have the entire of the treasure, for it is Sunday treasure, and as such it will bring no luck to any one.” Who acts: Becfola, Brothers, treasure. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becfola, Brothers, treasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:44:31 # text = Becfola again broke in, speaking graciously, regally, hastily: “Let those Brothers have the entire of the treasure, for it is Sunday treasure, and as such it will bring no luck to any one.” 1 Becfola Becfola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 speaking speak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 graciously graciously ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 regally regally ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 hastily hastily ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 15 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 16 det _ _ 16 Brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 entire entire ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obl _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 luck luck NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **break in** | past | Becfola | | | | again | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | Becfola *not said here* | | | | | graciously *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | that Brothers | the entire | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entire=Patient | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | treasure | | | | | for Sunday treasure | tree rules | | 6 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | treasure | no luck | any one | | | as such | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent luck=Theme to one=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/32/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/44/)