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title: Therefore she was perplexed, and became filled with a very rage of c… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore she was perplexed, and became filled with a very rage of curiosity. Who acts: curiosity. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 12

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Therefore she was perplexed, and became filled with a very rage of curiosity.

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**Who acts:** curiosity · **What happens:** perplex, fill, rage · **To what, where:** lament

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This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (curiosity), 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:pg2892:73:12
# text = Therefore she was perplexed, and became filled with a very rage of curiosity.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	perplexed	perplex	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perplex** | past · passive |  | lament |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fill** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with a rage of curiosity | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with rage=Instrument |
| 3 | **rage** |  | curiosity |  |  |  |  |  | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: of=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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