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title: The trouble which had fallen on Becuma did not leave her repentant,… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The trouble which had fallen on Becuma did not leave her repentant, and the sweet lady began to do wrong as instantly and innocently as a flower begins to grow. Who acts: trouble, sweet lady, flower. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII, with its dependency tree and the 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 2

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The trouble which had fallen on Becuma did not leave her repentant, and the sweet lady began to do wrong as instantly and innocently as a flower begins to grow.

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**Who acts:** trouble, sweet lady, flower · **What happens:** fall, not leave, begin, do, grow · **To what, where:** Becuma, repentant

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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 (trouble, sweet lady, flower), 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:pg2892:69:2
# text = The trouble which had fallen on Becuma did not leave her repentant, and the sweet lady began to do wrong as instantly and innocently as a flower begins to grow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	repentant	repentant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	20	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	innocently	innocently	ADV	RB	_	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	begins	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past · perfect | the trouble |  |  | Becuma |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on becuma=Location |
| 2 | **not** **leave** | past · do-support | the trouble | trouble's repentant |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repentant=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the sweet lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the sweet lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **begin** | present | a flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **grow** | to-infinitive | a flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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