Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter I, sentence 15

He barricaded his house, he shuttered his windows, and in a gloom of indignation and protest he continued the practices of ten thousand years, and would not hearken to Finnian calling at the window or to Time knocking at his door.

Who acts: gentleman · What happens: barricade, shutter, continue, not hearken, call, knock · To what, where: house, windows, practices, gloom, Finnian, Time · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 barricaded	nsubj
2	barricaded	barricade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 house	nmod:poss
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 barricaded	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 shuttered	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 shuttered	nsubj
7	shuttered	shutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 barricaded	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 windows	nmod:poss
9	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shuttered	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 continued	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 continued	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 gloom	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 gloom	det
14	gloom	gloom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 continued	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 indignation	case
16	indignation	indignation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gloom	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 protest	cc
18	protest	protest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 indignation	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 continued	nsubj
20	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 barricaded	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 practices	det
22	practices	practice	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 continued	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 years	case
24	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 thousand	compound
25	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 years	nummod
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 practices	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 hearken	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 hearken	cc
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 hearken	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hearken	advmod
31	hearken	hearken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 continued	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 Finnian	case
33	Finnian	Finnian	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 hearken	obl
34	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 hearken	advcl
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 window	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 window	det
37	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 calling	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 knocking	cc
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Time	case
40	Time	Time	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 knocking	obl
41	knocking	knock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 calling	conj
42	at	at	ADP	_	44 door	case
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 door	nmod:poss
44	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 knocking	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 barricaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	barricade	past	gentleman	gentleman's house				tree rules
2	shutter	past	gentleman	gentleman's windows				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent window=Destination
3	continue	past	gentleman	the practices of thousand years		a gloom of indignation and protest		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent practice=Theme
4	not hearken	would	gentleman not said here		Finnian			tree rules
5	call	gerund	gentleman not said here				at the window	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at window=Stimulus
6	knock	gerund	gentleman not said here		Time		at gentleman's door	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient
7	practice			thousand years				nom practice «act transitive»: of=patient

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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