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title: She had been punished, that is, she had submitted to control, and he… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: She had been punished, that is, she had submitted to control, and her sense of freedom, of privilege, of very being, was outraged. Who acts: that, mind. 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 6

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She had been punished, that is, she had submitted to control, and her sense of freedom, of privilege, of very being, was outraged.

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**Who acts:** that, mind · **What happens:** punish, be, control, outrage, sense · **To what, where:** mind, freedom

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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 (that, mind), 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:pg2892:69:6
# text = She had been punished, that is, she had submitted to control, and her sense of freedom, of privilege, of very being, was outraged.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	control	control	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	freedom	freedom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	outraged	outrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **punish** | past · perfect · passive |  | mind |  |  |  | of privilege; mind's sense of freedom *obl* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | submit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **control** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **outrage** | gerund · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 5 | **sense** |  | mind | freedom |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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