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title: “Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a wom… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a woman of the Shi’ to be banished, but this holy morning she was in the Shi’, and her arms were about the neck of Flann.” Who acts: terror, arms. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree a
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 51

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“Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a woman of the Shi’ to be banished, but this holy morning she was in the Shi’, and her arms were about the neck of Flann.”

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**Who acts:** terror, arms · **What happens:** be, punish, banish · **To what, where:** woman, Shi

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror, arms), 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:pg2892:44:51
# text = “Either she is a woman of this world to be punished, or she is a woman of the Shi’ to be banished, but this holy morning she was in the Shi’, and her arms were about the neck of Flann.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc:preconj	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	banished	banish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Shi	Shi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
41	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
42	about	about	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Flann	Flann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | terror | a woman |  |  |  | of this world | tree rules |
| 2 | **punish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | terror | a woman |  |  |  | of the Shi | tree rules |
| 4 | **banish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive · passive | terror *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | terror |  |  | the Shi | morning |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | terror's arms |  |  |  |  | about the neck; of Flann | tree rules |

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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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