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title: But there may have been something of calculation even in her wildest… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But there may have been something of calculation even in her wildest moment, for if she was delighted in her affection she was tormented in it also, as are all those who love the great ones of life and strive to equal themselves where equality is not possible. Who acts: wife, affection, equality. A 
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# Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 4

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But there may have been something of calculation even in her wildest moment, for if she was delighted in her affection she was tormented in it also, as are all those who love the great ones of life and strive to equal themselves where equality is not possible.

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**Who acts:** wife, affection, equality · **What happens:** be, torment, love, strive, equal, not be · **To what, where:** something, affection, wife, great ones, ecstasy

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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 (wife, affection, equality), 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:pg2892:73:4
# text = But there may have been something of calculation even in her wildest moment, for if she was delighted in her affection she was tormented in it also, as are all those who love the great ones of life and strive to equal themselves where equality is not possible.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
6	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	calculation	calculation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	even	even	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	tormented	torment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	13	nmod	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	strive	strive	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	equal	equal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	xcomp	_	_
45	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	44	obj	_	_
46	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	_
47	equality	equality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | participle |  | something |  |  | moment | of calculation | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | wife |  |  | wife's affection |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **torment** | past · passive | wife's affection *not said here* | wife |  | affection |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as those; all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **love** | present |  | the great ones of life |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 6 | **strive** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **equal** | to-infinitive |  | ecstasy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **is** | present | equality |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |

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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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