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title: Becuma, looking down on his beautiful head, smiled as much in rage a… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Becuma, looking down on his beautiful head, smiled as much in rage as in disdain. Who acts: Becuma. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 19

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Becuma, looking down on his beautiful head, smiled as much in rage as in disdain.

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**Who acts:** Becuma · **What happens:** look down, smile · **To what, where:** much, rage

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. 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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**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:pg2892:69:19
# text = Becuma, looking down on his beautiful head, smiled as much in rage as in disdain.
1	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	disdain	disdain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look down** | gerund | Becuma *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on prince's beautiful head; down *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on head=Theme |
| 2 | **smile** | past | Becuma | much |  | rage |  | as disdain | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Topic |

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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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