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title: “He is waiting for me,” said Becfola with proud shame, “and the thou… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “He is waiting for me,” said Becfola with proud shame, “and the thought that he should wait wrings my heart.” Who acts: king, Becfola. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 58

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“He is waiting for me,” said Becfola with proud shame, “and the thought that he should wait wrings my heart.”

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**Who acts:** king, Becfola · **What happens:** wait, say · **To what, where:** wrings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, 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:pg2892:44:58
# text = “He is waiting for me,” said Becfola with proud shame, “and the thought that he should wait wrings my heart.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
23	wrings	wring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | present · progressive | king |  |  |  |  | for Becfola | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Becfola |  |  |  |  | with proud shame | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **wait** *in a quote* | should | king | wrings |  |  |  |  | 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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