Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 31

But, although Becfola was moved and horrified by this battle, it was in another direction that her interest lay; therefore she soon asked the question which lay next her heart:

Who acts: battle, interest, question, Becfola · What happens: move, horrify, be, lie, ask, interest · To what, where: Becfola, direction, question, heart

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 (battle, interest, question, Becfola), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 moved	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 moved	punct
3	although	although	SCONJ	_	6 moved	mark
4	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 moved	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	aux:pass
6	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 horrified	cc
8	horrified	horrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 moved	conj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 battle	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 battle	det
11	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horrified	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 direction	punct
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 direction	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 direction	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 direction	case
16	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 direction	det
17	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 horrified	parataxis
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 lay	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 interest	nmod:poss
20	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 lay	nsubj
21	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 direction	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
23	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	26 asked	advmod
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 asked	nsubj
25	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 asked	advmod
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moved	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 question	det
28	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	obj
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lay	nsubj
30	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 question	acl:relcl
31	next	next	ADV	_	30 lay	advmod
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lay	obj
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 moved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move	past · passive		Becfola			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result
2	horrify	participle				by this battle	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	battle		another direction		tree rules
4	lie	past	Becfola's interest				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ask speech: ask	past	interest	the question		soon, therefore property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
6	lie	past	the question	Becfola's heart		next property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heart=Theme
7	interest		Becfola				nom interest «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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