--- title: She was passionate and fierce, and because the blood would flood sud… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: She was passionate and fierce, and because the blood would flood suddenly to her cheek, so that she who had seemed a lily became, while you looked upon her, a rose, she was called Flame Lady. Who acts: wife, blood, lily, you. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cair --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II. Said Cairide’:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/) / 2 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 2 She was passionate and fierce, and because the blood would flood suddenly to her cheek, so that she who had seemed a lily became, while you looked upon her, a rose, she was called Flame Lady. **Who acts:** wife, blood, lily, you · **What happens:** be, flood, have, seem, become, look · **To what, where:** wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wife, blood, lily, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2892:73:2 # text = She was passionate and fierce, and because the blood would flood suddenly to her cheek, so that she who had seemed a lily became, while you looked upon her, a rose, she was called Flame Lady. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 passionate passionate ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 fierce fierce ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 flood flood VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 23 mark _ _ 19 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 23 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 31 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj:pass _ _ 38 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 40 Flame Flame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 Lady Lady PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | wife | | | | | passionate *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | wife *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **flood** | would | the blood | | | | | to wife's cheek; suddenly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **seem** | past | wife | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 6 | **become** | past | a lily | | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **look** | past | you | | | | | upon wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon she=Theme | | 8 | **call** | past · passive | | wife | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/3/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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