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title: In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of Faery being closed against her, Becuma was forced to appear in the world of men. Who acts: Becuma. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 19

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In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of Faery being closed against her, Becuma was forced to appear in the world of men.

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**Who acts:** Becuma · **What happens:** close, force, appear · **To what, where:** gates, Becuma, way, world

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becuma), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2892:1886`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2892:62:19
# text = In that way, the gates of her own world and the innumerable doors of Faery being closed against her, Becuma was forced to appear in the world of men.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Faery	Faery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	forced	force	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | gerund · passive |  | the gates of One's own world and the innumerable doors of Faery |  |  |  | against One | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **force** | past · passive |  | Becuma |  | that way |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **appear** | to-infinitive | Becuma *not said here* |  |  | the world of men |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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