Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 27
But, for the moment, the great room was seated, and the doors were held to allow a moment of respect to pass before the servers and squires came in.
Who acts: servers · What happens: seat, hold, allow, pass, come in · To what, where: great room, doors
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servers), 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 | _ | 11 seated | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 moment | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 moment | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 room | amod |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seated | aux:pass |
| 11 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 doors | det |
| 15 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 held | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 held | aux:pass |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seated | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 allow | mark |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 held | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 allow | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 respect | case |
| 23 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moment | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 pass | mark |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 allow | xcomp |
| 26 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 31 came | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 servers | det |
| 28 | servers | server | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 came | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 squires | cc |
| 30 | squires | squire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 servers | conj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pass | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 came | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | the great room | moment | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the doors | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | allow | to-infinitive | moment | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pass not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come in | past | the servers and squires | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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