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title: It is pleasant, however, notwithstanding her terrible crime and her… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is pleasant, however, notwithstanding her terrible crime and her woeful punishment, to think how courageous she was. Who acts: conduct, One. 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 20

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It is pleasant, however, notwithstanding her terrible crime and her woeful punishment, to think how courageous she was.

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**Who acts:** conduct, One · **What happens:** be, notwithstand, think, incriminate, punish · **To what, where:** terrible crime · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (conduct, One), 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:pg2892:62:20
# text = It is pleasant, however, notwithstanding her terrible crime and her woeful punishment, to think how courageous she was.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	woeful	woeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	courageous	courageous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | conduct |  |  |  |  | pleasant *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **notwithstand** | gerund | conduct *not said here* | One's terrible crime and One's woeful punishment |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | One |  |  |  |  | courageous *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **incriminate** |  | One |  |  |  |  |  | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **punish** |  | One |  |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «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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