Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 2

The trouble which had fallen on Becuma did not leave her repentant, and the sweet lady began to do wrong as instantly and innocently as a flower begins to grow.

Who acts: trouble, sweet lady, flower · What happens: fall, not leave, begin, do, grow · To what, where: Becuma, repentant

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trouble, sweet lady, flower), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trouble	det
2	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	nsubj
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fallen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fallen	aux
5	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 trouble	acl:relcl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 Becuma	case
7	Becuma	Becuma	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 fallen	obl
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 leave	advmod
10	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 repentant	nmod:poss
12	repentant	repentant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 leave	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 began	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lady	det
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lady	amod
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leave	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 do	advmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 instantly	case
23	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	20 do	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 innocently	cc
25	innocently	innocently	ADV	_	23 instantly	conj
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 begins	mark
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flower	det
28	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 begins	nsubj
29	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 do	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 grow	mark
31	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 begins	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	fall	past · perfect	the trouble		Becuma	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on becuma=Location
2	not leave	past · do-support	the trouble	trouble's repentant		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repentant=Theme
3	begin	past	the sweet lady			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	do	to-infinitive	the sweet lady not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	present	a flower			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	grow	to-infinitive	a flower not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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