Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 14

Becfola followed, feeling ruefully that something new to her experience had arrived; “for,” she thought, “it is usual that young men should not speak to me now that I am the mate of a king, but it is very unusual that young men should not look at me.”

Who acts: Becfola, something, experience, young men · What happens: follow, feel, arrive, think, be, not speak · To what, where: Becfola, mate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Becfola, something, experience, young men), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 followed	advcl
5	ruefully	ruefully	ADV	_	4 feeling	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 arrived	mark
7	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 arrived	nsubj
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 something	amod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 experience	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 experience	nmod:poss
11	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 new	obl
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arrived	aux
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 feeling	advcl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 thought	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 for	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 thought	mark
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 for	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 for	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 thought	nsubj
20	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 followed	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 usual	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 usual	punct
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 usual	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 usual	cop
25	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	ccomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 speak	mark
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 men	amod
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 speak	nsubj
29	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 speak	advmod
31	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 usual	advcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 speak	obl
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 speak	advmod
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 mate	mark
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 mate	nsubj
37	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 mate	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 mate	det
39	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speak	advcl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 king	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 king	det
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 mate	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 unusual	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	48 unusual	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 unusual	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	48 unusual	cop
47	very	very	ADV	_	48 unusual	advmod
48	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thought	ccomp
49	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 look	mark
50	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 men	amod
51	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 look	nsubj
52	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	54 look	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 look	advmod
54	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 unusual	advcl
55	at	at	ADP	_	56 me	case
56	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 look	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Becfola					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feel	gerund	Becfola not said here				ruefully property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	arrive	past · perfect	something					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	think speech: other	past	Becfola					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	experience				usual property	tree rules
6	not speak speech: other in a quote	should	young men		Becfola	now		vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent
7	is a in a quote	present	Becfola	the mate			of a king	tree rules
8	is in a quote	present	experience				unusual property	tree rules
9	not look in a quote	should	young men				at Becfola	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme
10	experience		Becfola					nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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.

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